Genres: Animation

  • Cold Tape

    Rapid-fire computer-composed abstract animation exploring difference, the interplay of opposites, and the impact of light on the body.

  • Open

    An abstract film of vertical horror, absence and descent (After Marcel Duchamp’s painting, ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’, 1912) composed in-camera by optically manipulating an individual frame of hand-painted film. With electronic music track by David McKenzie. The film frame was painted in a single stroke to imitate the blurring of images produced by the opening and closing of the eyelid; and by film slippage (a common fault, where damaged film runs through the camera or projector gate without stopping). Subtle movements of reflected light on the film surface and parallax camera motion animate the painting; which, in tandem with the…

  • Pour

    An abstract animation exploring the themes of attraction and repulsion, suspension and release. Formed through the delicate transformation of colours, textures and shapes painted on film. With music by David McKenzie.

  • Double

    A two-screen projection exploring the alternate and simultaneous interplay of light and dark, silence and sound. Composed by optically manipulating abstract hand-painted film. Complimented by a haunting soundtrack by David McKenzie in which the human voice was digitally processed to reflect the movements of light on the film surface.

  • Universe Energies Sustain Us

    A poetic video collage about light, air and language, the materials and processes we use to communicate and survive; exploring the translation and regulation of data by the body and technology; the aesthetics and consequences of error; the relationships of transparency and difference; problems of image order and presentation, identity, authenticity, feedback and loss, copyright and ownership, access and denial, time, space, speed and memory. Composed of recycled sequences of abstract animation and performance video (sourced from Cold Tape, Myeyeye, Enter, Island, Walk, Play and Letters), together with documentation of the imaging process, and incidental, ambient and appropriated material. Originally…

  • Fifty Feet that Shook the World

    This stop-motion homage to the silent, Russian classics takes a twisted look at the on-going war between film and video (imagine Jan Svankmajer remaking Potemkin!). Originally made for LA Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (one roll of Super 8 film, edited in camera, sound created without seeing the footage). Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival 2004, Best Animation; Athens Independent Film Festival 2004, 2nd Place Animation; Humboldt Film Festival 2004, Honorable Mention

  • Gulliver’s Travels

    Held hostage by her dolls, a girl is forced into a showdown between good and evil in this offbeat stop-motion film. Originally made for LA Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (one roll of Super 8 film, edited in camera, sound created without seeing the footage).

  • filth

    The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.

  • Something Else

    Fun things happen when you play with yourself. Change is one of them.

  • Snip

    Shards of film fly off the screen while the music of Fats Waller plays on! In this short abstract film, coloured ink and small pieces of film stock are heaped directly on the film’s surface. “This film was made in the weeks preceding the birth of my first child. It was my intention to create a fast-moving, colourful style that a very young child could respond to. I’ll see in the years that follow if I was right or not,” Steven Woloshen.