East Meets West / Vzhod sreča zahod

 

Dirk De Bruyn
2015, Australia, 4’27”

An abstract flickering animation that sits precariously between the digital and the analog. The film highlights the luminous scratches, dust and Letraset materially present and placed on the original film, all to the layered beat of Viola Smith's drumming. 

Abstraktna, utripajoča animacija, ki lovi negotovo ravnotežje med digitalnim in analognim. Film v ospredje postavlja sijoče praske, prah in črke Letraset, ki so fizično prisotni in naneseni na izvirni filmski trak, vse to pa se odvija ob večplastnem ritmu bobnanja Viole Smith.

  • Created by stretching hand-drawn and bleached filmstrips, with discarded rub-down lettering added on LIFT’s optical printer. After adding more drawings and Letraset, the material was digitised using the JK Optical Printer with a Panasonic GH2. The black-and-white section was made by sampling and abstracting found footage directly from a computer screen.

  • Film je nastal z raztegovanjem ročno poslikanih in beljenih filmskih trakov, pri čemer so bili z optičnim tiskalnikom centra LIFT dodani odpisani črkovni preslikači. Po dodajanju novih risb in letraseta je bil material digitaliziran s pomočjo optičnega tiskalnika JK in fotoaparata Panasonic GH2. Črno-beli del je nastal z vzorčenjem in abstrahiranjem najdenih posnetkov neposredno z računalniškega zaslona.

Language: English (on-screen text)
Technique: Direct animation, computer screen  found footage
Recommended for children under 14 years of age: Yes




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Made by Dirk De Bruyn

 

Dirk de Bruyn

is Hon. Professor of Screen  and  Design at Deakin  University, Melbourne, Australia. He has made numerous animations, performance and installation work over the last 50 years. Retrospectives of his animations screened at Melbourne International Animation Festival, Punto Y Raya, Germany and Alternativa, Belgrade, Serbia in 2016 and Cineinfinito, Spain (2019-20) His publications on trauma, the technical image, surveillance and pattern recognition have been published internationally. 

Find more: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_de_Bruyn

 
Natalija Bračko