Peripetics, ex machina

Peripetics_ex_machina is the making of Peripetics and all the concepts that lead up to it or the outtakes that didn't make the final piece.

Featured in Vidos by Michael Fakesch, who also did the soundscape to it.


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Subconscious

my first 2 d animation film 2005

visuals : candas sisman

sounds : mix - candas sisman

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Metachaos

Alessandro Bavari: Camera Tremula 1, Noise Melange, XYZ Ocula Depth
Fulvio Sturniolo: Camera Tremula 2
Jeff Ensign aka Evolution Noise Slave: Sonic Harmonium

Format: Pal Widescreen 1050x576 - Progressive
Duration: 8:27 mins
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Prizes

Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011.
Special Award IED at Skepto International Film Festival.
Best Experimental Film at the 2nd Stortford Film Festival.

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SINOPSYS
Metachaos, from Greek Meta (beyond) and Chaos (the abyss where the eternally-formless state of the universe hides), indicates a primordial shape of ameba, which lacks in precise morphology, and it is characterized by mutation and mitosis.
In fact the bodies represented in METACHAOS, even though they are characterized by an apparently anthropomorphous appearance, in reality they are without identity and conscience. They exist confined in a spaceless and timeless state, an hostile and decadent hyperuranium where a fortress, in perpetual movement, dominates the landscape in defense of a supercelestial, harmonic but fragile parallel dimension. In its destructive instinct of violating the dimensional limbo, the mutant horde penetrates the intimacy of the fortress, laying siege like a virus. Similar to the balance of a philological continuum in human species, bringing the status of things back to the primordial broth.

STATEMENT
METACHAOS is a multidisciplinary audio-visual project, articulated in a short film, a set of photography and mix-technique paintings. The purpose of the project is to represent the most tragic aspects of the human nature and of its motion, such as war, madness, social change and hate. An accretion of feelings that are metaphorically represented by specific visual forms, which are abstract conceptually, but concrete and tangible formally. The application of acid and monochromatic tints, besides the strong contrasts, makes everything intentionally more oppressive and tragic.

In order to obtain a more immersive and plausible version, the shot was taken adopting the camera live technique. The extreme and frenetic motion of the shoulder camera, similar to the subjective one, becomes a main constant, so that, along with the persisting cuts used to edit the video, create a bigger sense of instability and danger. In fact, thanks to the dissemination of Technology, it is possible to notice that the unconscious-esthetic potential of the shots available on Youtube, characterized by a pseudo-documentary and amateur approach, often offer an unexpected emotional involvement, which trigger an exhibitionistic-voyeuristic interchange between the author and the consumer.

The irrational gesture and action of the bodies, as if a collective form of madness controlled them, are inspired by artists like Bosch and Bruegel who, between the ‘400 and ‘500, produced an iconography where irrational images show sickly madness and pain.

The project has been realized using different techniques: live shots taken in discharged industrial sites, CGI animations, tracking and motion captures, besides various other analogical ones.

American Jeff Ensign, aka Evolution Noise Slave composed the original sound track, which has been progressively updated during the video production. The musical score was inspired by 6 separate pieces Jeff had previously created that were then combined into a hybrid. The composition was also based in part from a sonic interpretation of the ideas presented in Antonin Artaud’s the Theater and Cruelty overlaid on Bavari’s images.

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Feeling My Way

animate! synopsis

What goes around comes around – the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. Layered and luminous with in-sight.
long synopsis

An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, the viewer is able to share the traveller’s experiences and his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of urban existence.
key credits

director
Jonathan Hodgson
rostrum camera
Jeremy Moorshead

Jonathan Hodgson
biography

Jonathan Hodgson was born in Oxford, U.K. in 1960 and educated at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. Jonathan has been a Freelance Animation Director since 1985, setting up ‘Sherbet’ with Producer Jonathan Bairstow in 1996 to produce commercials, TV graphics & short films.

animate! films by this artist

Camouflage

Feeling My Way
artist’s website

Hodgson Films

Jonathan Hodgson’s website
a film by Jonathan Hodgson
direction

director
Jonathan Hodgson

image personnel

rostrum camera
Jeremy Moorshead

production personnel

technical support
Timo Arnall

support

thanks

Soho Images and The Mill
primary funding

Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award


© Jonathan Hodgson 1997

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format
35mm
colour or black & white
colour

video distribution format

video format
BetaSP
screen aspect ratio
4:3
video standard
PAL
sound type
stereo

distributor

LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk

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