Mouthpiece

The work of art in the age of genetic reproduction. Based on the practice of lip-reading, this short animated film explores the visual “code” of verbal pronunciation by animating pairs of lips cut out from magazines according to the position of the mouth in pronouncing a sound of spoken language. But, beyond a mere demonstration f lip-sync, this film employs the 24 frames per second cinematic “code” of motion to also explore Alexander Calder’s goal of achieving “a sense of motion on sculpture…where just as one can compose colours, or forms, so one can compose motions.”