In June 2009, I started a collaborative drawing party hosted at the Vancouver Film School Café. Since then we have had over 12 events with upwards of 75 collaborators at a time! We've drawn to an author reading, Olympic hockey and even a Digital Grafitti wall generously donated by Tangible Interactive.
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There were parts of this film that could not be represented by live action or by any other method other than animation. There were nightmarish dreams that needed to be interpreted that dealt with many themes explored in the film. By animating them, it offered a way to tell these short stories with a real economy of time in a much-needed expressive way.
In these animated sequences, you will see people being treated like dirt, you will see life and death, blood, guts, shit, semen. Please see the movie description below.
"What is it about feeling dirty that shames us into silence and disgust?" asks director Meghna Haldar in the feature documentary Dirt. From the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to a barbeque joint in Central Texas - everyone has a different story. Dirt isn't just a four letter word, it contains a world of meaning spanning the divine to the profane. A quixotic odyssey into all things unclean, featuring animation to make Hieronymus Bosch blush, tracks from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and an experimental soundscape by Clinker, Dirt digs deep to illuminate the positively filthy experience of being human.
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Is an animation series that takes place in a surreal world of animal human hybrids where tragic stories of longing and loss are carried out within heart-stirring dreamlike vistas.
http://www.thefragilecircus.com
Distant Air is an interactive timeline that charts 5 vivid memories of birds ranging from when I was a child to memories I haven't had yet. This project uses a combination of hazy truths and exaggerations, based on dreams and memories, to demonstrate how a massaged fiction can be in some way more truth to the actual event than a mere description is. Expand
http://www.distantair.comOfficial music video
for The Bell Orchestre.
An antique toy ballerina finds her dark shadow twin. Meanwhile the band, entangled marionettes merged with their instruments, struggle to keep playing their song while observing the strange story revealed before them.
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The Tourist & The Picket-Fence Prison is faction of an ongoing animation series called The Fragile Circus where tourists are ruthless scavengers that feed off other creatures by taking their photo. In this case, a curious tourist invades the privacy of a lonely pine tree.
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Hidden behind the doors of an online advent calendar are the scenes of an unconventional heart-warming visual story. It’s a tale of a fragmented boy who is intrigued and follows a girl, made of gift-boxes, while receiving affectionate presents from her. In the end, The Flowering of Forgotten Gifts reveals our most cherished gift of all.
http://2009.notsosimpleton.com/nfbAn old and weary actress is literally falling apart backstage in her dressing room. In spite of this apparent travesty, she still manages to pull her self together for her fans in order to pose for a few glamour shots.
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Magpie & Stump is a faction of an on-going animation series called The Fragile Circus. Within a stage setting, a pesky magpie disturbs the peace and quiet of an old fat moose in order to steal his antlers and add to his ultimate perch. Expand
Double Entry was executed in a diary fashion with each individual piece dated at its inception and subsequent completion. Using clothes patterns as a canvas, Belfast-based painter, Jennifer Trouton applied a montage of photographs, postcards, sewing pins with text and paint to create a visual record and personal commentary.
RE:ENTRY is the result of a collaboration between Jennifer and I. I scanned a few of her paintings and re-interpreted them using digital tools and handmade collage.
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