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Video
Café
Three Great Animations
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March
16, 2003 – June 8, 2003
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To animate
an image is not just to imitate life. In the age of digital
imaging and virtual realities, the three selected animations
are a product of our fascination with movement and metamorphoses,
giving free rein to whit and fantasy. A roguish flirtation
with the history of art, Kunstbar (2002) was mastered
by a team of conventional cartoon animation creators The
Petrie Lounge. Le Tour de QMA (2002) by Jean Barberis
and Alexis Lautier (Flux Factory) bridges fiction and
non-fiction in their hilarious stop-motion sequences of
photographs, while Fernando Renes rigorously compiles
hand-drawn pictures as a self-portrait in Couch Grass
(2000).
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Renes (b. 1970, Covarrubias, Spain)
Couch Grass, 2000, color, silent, 10:08 min.
In his first animation, Fernando Renes constructs a
clip from his life assembled through a dense compilation
of thousands of drawings. An encyclopedic medley of
bits and pieces from the artist’s inner life, Couch
Grass does not tell a story, it outlines as a self-portrait.
Renes’ animated thoughts illuminate the random
nature of one’s psychic life in which the emotional
and physical realities sinuously morph into each other.
Couch Grass, 2000
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and Alexis Lautier—Flux Factory (b. 1978, Aix-en-Provence,
France / b. 1976, La Tranche, France)
Le Tour de Q.M.A., 2002, stop-motion animation,
color, sound, 2:27 min.
Sometimes art is best experienced at top speed on one's
stomach. Le Tour de Q.M.A. captures two men traveling
through the museum on their belly. While each frame
is sharply focused with a digital camera, the cranky
stop-motion creates a good old-fashioned cinematic illusion
that makes improbable acts and motions believable. Watch
them dash and slither through the galleries, café,
offices and backdoors of the Museum!
Le Tour de Q.M.A., 2002
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Petrie Lounge (Formed in 1999, Toronto, Canada, Steve
Whitehouse, Chris LaBonte, John Halfpenny, Paul Teglas,
Denis Gonzalez)
Kunstbar, 2002, Flash animation, color, sound,
3:30 min.
Five friends, experts in the tradition of animation,
concoct a batch of cocktails named after Picasso, da
Vinci, Pollock…. The hallucinatory adventure begins
against the metaphysical backdrop of a de Chirico painting.
A man wanders into the Kunstbar (art café) oblivious
that his cocktails are infused with master pieces. Watch
out for the Bosch drink! Kunstbar has been shown in
numerous international venues including the Sundance
Online Film Festival (2002).
Kunstbar, 2002
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