An animated trip in nature with excellent execution!
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“4 Givings” Colin Barton
13 DecLos Angeles Filmmaker and very groovy friend Colin Barton takes us on a highly textured psychedelic journey using cameraless direct on film animation techniques.
Colin says:
Based on multiples of fours, ‘4 Givings’ moves through the cycle of the day with the central theme of forgiveness, release, renewal, and acceptance. Following an alchemical motif, earth, wind, fire, and water recur and are represented by archetypes and abstractions.
Animated on fours, this all 35mm direct on film animation was composited in After Effects.
Into the colorflow
10 DecThree processes interact to make this animation. A spontaneous differentiation due to a multi-scale Turing instability causes the development of dots and lines of various colors. Each color is also a movement, leading to a compressible flow which smears and obliterates the dots and lines. The third process is an overall exponential growth or inflation. Small structures expand, and the Turing instability causes sub-structures to form.
By Jonathan McCabe
“Sausage City” by Adam Beckett
6 DecThe first time I saw an Adam Beckett film, I believe it was “Flesh Flows”, my skin went all goosebumpy and my head felt like it had detached from my body. His work is truly psychoactive media. Consisting of hand drawn animated “infinite” loops shot on film and manipulated on the optical printer (this is pre-digital), his films take the viewer on a hypnotic journey into a world of slippery forms and shifting time. Adam Beckett was an experimental animation student at the California Institute of Arts in the early 1970’s. His untimely death at the age of 29 prematurely interrupted a prolific career. Legend has it that Beckett lived in the CalArts Optical Printer room for weeks on end and some say that his ghost still resides there. I hope you enjoy this rare experience.
If you want to see more of Adam Beckett’s work, there is a DVD of beautifully restored films available from the Iota Center.
http://iotacenter.org/store/videos/beckett_dvd
C2C Brings the Beat
6 DecIt’s hard not to like these guys. If you can dig a bit of hip-hop, their beats are crazy smooth. If you’re an idealist about journeys into the music industry, the group is formed from four high school friends who found a passion in digging through old records and working turntables; now they’re the reigning champions at international competitions for the genre. And if by some chance you happen to have an interest psychedelic videos, theirs are off the hook. Each a very different style, each a joy to watch. They come from France, and so for now they’re bigger in Europe than in the US, but this kind of quality is bound to catch on.
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