Breakblast (2008, 7.7MB, 1:01 min, silent)
Breakblast (2007, 4.9MB, 55 secs, silent)
Over the fence and here we go (2006, 4.4MB, 49 secs, silent)
Three stop motion pieces, economical &
elegant all, from Finnish artist Timo Vaittinen.
I like the (justified) confidence their silence
demonstrates.
Andersen M Studio – A Map Comes to Life (2006, 11.4MB, 2:20)
Incredible stop-motion animation from London’s
Andersen M Studio. Much of their video work is
in the same style, but why switch it up when
they’re so talented in this specialized way?
Inspiring and fun.
Still Life: Gallery (2002, 3.5 MB, 3:22 min.)
This piece was shot with a still camera. The images are ‘stitched’ together using
a combination of specialized software and by hand; the stills seamlessly joined to
create a new space. Because the space is made up of stills instead of video, any
and all action contained within the frame is arrested. The two major precepts of
video – motion and time – are thus implied but impenetrable.
from Gareth Long.
Le Lion Devenu Vieux (1932, 3.5MB, 1:04 sec.)
Ladislas Starewitch is often credited with inventing stop motion animation
as we know it, though so are several other people. It depends on what fits
into your definition of stop motion.
Certainly he was probably the first to actually make little figures and move
them frame by frame in an attempt to duplicate lifelike movement of actual
living things. it was because he was filming beetles and found that the hot
lights made them lethargic, so he made his own little beetles asrealistically
as possible and animated them instead.
This gave birth to further projects with very lifelike but sometimes partially
anthropomorphic (human-like) animals.
from – Darkstrider.
By Mica. (thanks Adam)
Eternal Return (2006, 4 MB, 1:54 min.)
“Eternal Return” installed at the exhibition Stop Motion at the Edith Russ Haus,
is a remake of a scene from the musical movie The Gay Divorcee.
The piece was reworked to allow a large video projection for the exhibition.”
by – Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
Singer (2005, 4.7MB, 1:15 min.)
Grouik-Grouik (2005, 11.9MB, 1:48 min.)
Accomplished stop motion shenanigans from French
videomaker Charlie Mars, self-styled ‘Videomaker from Outerspace’.
Ashleigh Smith – Impossible Conversations (2010, 75 MB, 2:30 min)
Emma Haggis – Out of Sight, Out of Mind (2010, 118 MB, 2:18 min)
Lucy Mills – Response (2010, 108 MB, 2:02 min, silent)
So, first, I should say, Writtle is where I taught this year, but it cuts both ways:
I wouldn’t post these pieces by graduating students here on DVblog unless I
thought they were all great, which I do.
They’re also diverse, in a fascinating way.
There’s Ashleigh Smith’s haunting – stays with you long afterwards – game/real life hybrid,
Lucy Mills beauty industry critique – half mash-up, half rather brave performance,
(It’s interesting the way that all three pieces incorporate, to
some degree, elements of self performance) and Emma Haggis’s superbly made
and utterly captivating stop motion environmental piece.
In each case one can see a personal language well into its development.
(All these pieces or variants/derivatives thereof formed part of larger
installations; I’m impressed by the naturalness & lack of self consciousness
with with these three move between modes of working/presentation)
I hope they’re all still making work in ten years – given this
starting point then that would be a treat in store.
series 1, #10 (2006, 625KB, 1 sec. loop)
series 1, #1 (2006, 564KB, 1 sec. loop)
series 1, #20 (2006, 550KB, 1 sec. loop)
Attractive & interesting 2006 work from Belgian artist Hugo Heyrman
Despite a superficial similarity to the work of the late David Crawford
this work has a dynamic (and a charm) entirely its own.
Check out Heyrman’s Museums of the Mind site for more.
Fun with Muybridge (2009, 18 MB, 1:30 min)
Conversations with Eadweard J. Muybridge.
By Wreck & Salvage – a package of three video producers:
Erik Nelson, Adam Quirk & Aaron Valdez
Music by Kevin Bewersdorf.
SNABBEAS (2009, 107 MB, 4:36 min.)
Music video for the GOTO80 track ‘Snabbeas’ by Ilan Katin
of Team Modul8.
Shadow Dance (Alex Gordon-Shotton, 2009, 15 MB, 7 sec silent loop)
Liquid Dance (Jonathan Beards, 2009, 192 MB, 5:55 min)
Two more great dance related pieces, sophisticated &
beautiful both, from Tees/Art/Blog last year.
A Small Spork Lumiere (2009, 3MB, 9 sec silent loop)
Fireworks (2009, 2MB, 43 sec silent loop)
Two from the ever reliable, delightful, and in its quiet & unassuming
(but frequently deadly – it’s the Columbo of art blogs) way, mould-breaking
Sporkworld Microblog, which if you don’t follow religiously, you should.
Ironically, given the setting, A Small Spork Lumiere could constitute a kind
of ostensive definition of dryness.
Tomas Mankovsky – Sorry I’m Late (2009, 24.9MB, 3:11)
Lovely short film Sorry I’m Late.
Fun and engaging and very well done.
My only criticism: I know it’s important to
include proper credits, but must they be as
long as the piece itself?
Timothy McConville – White Piano (2009, 26.7MB, 2:21)
Video by Timothy McConville for his own band
Duchess’ song “White Piano”
Katrine Emme Thielkes – Sweet Christmas #19 (2008, 1.8MB, 0:31)
The nineteenth in the Sweet Christmas series by Katrine Emme Thielkes.
Audio by Mikkel Westerkam.
Sneaux Shoes launched a consumer-generated video campaign
with a stop-motion video of a human skateboard. The TV ad
features a skateboarder using a kid as a skateboard and performing
classic tricks like ollies, grinds and 360s.
PES who directed the video made it entirely in-camera (Canon D20)
and on location through the use of a stop-motion animation technique
known as pixilation. Says PES: “This spot is a great example of the
breadth of stop-motion. If something exists in the real world, it can be animated.”
Editing and sound design was done by Sam Welch at Homestead, New York.
White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes (2008, 5.7MB, 2:28)
Beautifully poignant music video from Fleet Foxes,
directed by super talented Sean Pecknold.
Kaboom (2005, 9 MB, 1:14 min.)
Fireworks (2004, 6.1 MB, 28 sec.)
PES is a New York based animator and movie maker. His work has been
commissioned by Bacardi and Diesel. His shorts, stop-motion animations
are known for their skill and brilliance.
Lucia (2007, 48.5MB, 4:01 min)
Exquisite stop motion work from Niles Atallah, Joaqu
Get Out and Play (2008, 36.9MB, 1:25 min)
Somebody called Donna sends us a mail ‘writing from a Nokia sponsored blog’.
Donna, kind soul that she is, thought
‘With your stop motion background we thought you might have a
different take on the video than the gamers and
tech bloggers who might normally watch the video’
Aw..bless her!
Nothing to do, then, with trying to use as us a part of an attempted
“virality” strategy ( don’t get us wrong, we’re impressed dvblog even
appears on these folks’ radar)
So..watch the movie..it’s good.
There’s stuff to be learned here, no doubt –
not least that the corporate vultures can clearly buy in time and talent;
but how much better a world it would be if the silly amounts of cash it
clearly cost to make this just went straight to fund new work by artists…
Heart Made of Sound (2007, 24MB, 3:06 min.)
‘A wonderful little stop-motion melange of visual joy that’s the music video
to The Soft Lightes’ “Heart Made of Sound” by director Kris Moyes.’
from del.icio.us
FuyijaMiyagi (2007, 24MB, 3:17 min.)
Stop motion, dominos, great music video for
Fujiya & Miyagi by Michel Gondry-esque.
Hagalo Usted Mismo (2007, 25.1MB, 4:24 min)
Video clips hechos cuadro a cuadro de una belleza y
fr�gil extra�eza del artista chileno Niles Atallah.
El trabajo es tambi�n de una imaginaci�n enormemente
f�rtil y singularmente libre de clich�.
Apuesto que estos fueron simultaneamente un gran
desaf�o y un placer a�n m�s grande de realizar.
�Maravilloso!!
Music videos with stop-motion work of beauty
& fragile strangeness from Chilean artist Niles Atallah.
The work, also, of an enormously fertile imagination
& one singularly free of clich’.
I bet these were simultaneously a great trial &
a greater joy to make.
Wonderful!
Lunch (1992, 18.3MB, 7:03 min)
Splendidly dark & funny stop motion ‘n’ prosthetics work from
the fearless (& peerless) Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer.
Between You And Me (2005, 30 MB, 4:20 min.)
Short movie shot with still camera.
Written and directed by Patryk Rebisz.
No More Workhorse Blues (2006, 6.4MB, 2:55 min.)
Will Oldham a.k.a Bonnie Prince Billy is a writer/performer
of unusual talent & significance.
Extremely smart, genuine skill with language (in many registers)
a wide range of cultural reference, a sense of being part of a
larger tradition, but also a rootedness –
the mining of a very specific & personal seam.
Then, still, within this – a capacity to surprise, even shock.
An integrity.
Here he teams up with Harmony Korine who matches the
complex richness of the song with a roquefort of a video:-
a sweet rottenness -simultaeneously intensely delicious
& to the same degree inducing a certain queasiness.
