SEQUENCE XIII (16mm, colour, silent, 2’, 2008) The film is a complete record, in two versions, of a painting by Angela Allen. The cellular structure of the painting is mapped onto the cellular form of the film-strip. INTERRUPTION VII (16mm, colour, silent,14’ 2008) The film is made from a drawing by the artist Angela Allen. I used a combination of single frame shooting combined with in-camera dissolves and other strategies to create the work, which analyses and reconstructs parts of the original drawing. The film’s making processes aim to be in accordance with the generative principles by which the pictures were made. Key to this is that the film be true to the strategy and problematics resulting in the drawings’ final form, while at the same time rendering them as time-based works. The films’ structures are dictated by those of its subject, in order that the films’ structures be not arbitrary or imposed. The work explores the interrelationship between the still image and motion effects induced by the filming of that image, specifically, kinetic phenomena spontaneously generated in the process of animating fragments of this medium sized drawing. Different filming rates (scales) interact with scalar elements of the drawing.
Filter Films
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“Pro Agri” is a record of a tobacco processing plant near Città di Castello in Umbria, central italy. The building was filmed in time-lapse, at a rate of one frame every twelve seconds, from one hour before sunset to one hour afterwards.
Pro Agri
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A woman recounts the humorous story of a friend’s attempts to hide an excessive perspiration problem, which parallels her sexual re-orientation. Her bodily fluids are coming out before she does. This is the story of one woman’s struggle with compulsory heterosexuality.
Dike
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A dance piece which was inspired by native North American dances and by a spectacular show of the Northern Lights as remembered from a trip on the Peace River.
Dancing with Northern Lights
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One more in the series of “Nukie”, the crazed Atomic bomb who this time realizes that the end of the world which he’s been calling for, will also end his source of “entertainment”.
Nukie Goes Bonkers
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A victim is tormented by questions and self doubt. Adapted from a story of her rape as told by a friend. The animation is in the form of a public service announcement.
Case of Rape, A
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An animated essay which is a joint effort by both the artist and his son – a psychology prof. – to “describe” what it’s like to be living with manic depression and creating under its influence.
Oh Me 2
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Set in the turbulent world of high school, THE DURIAN EXPERIENCE is a bittersweet picture of adolescent friendship. While coping with post-break-up blues, 17-year-old Wendell enjoys hanging out with his best friend, Dom, more than ever. When a sudden discovery surfaces, insecurities start to set in between the two and tests the strength of their friendship.
Durian Experience, The
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When Paul’s brother dies, his parents send him to live with his grandfather in a trailer park. He soon makes friends with a local boy, Keith, who introduces him to shop lifting, guns and homemade pornography. NEW SKIN is a coming-of-age story dealing with queer sexual awakening in a poverty-stricken, rural community.
New Skin
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A two-minute creative documentary made of two unaltered still photos: one taken by a cell phone, the other by a professional Hollywood paparazzo. Selected Screenings: Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Toronto, ON); CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2009 (Toronto, ON)
Carpet Diem
