Jesse la Flair (USA)
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Video title:
“Finding Himself In A Thaumatrope”
2008, 1:10
As time continues we are forced to shape our often
different personalities into the shape of one. In this
piece A man searches for himself, but is blocked by
the space between the video’s frames. Only in your
mind’s eye can he really find himself. Physically the
two images of the man are never really together. In
this modern day thaumatrope two stop motion films were
interlaced frame-by-frame playing with the persistence
of vision or the eyes’ ability to preserve an image
for roughly 1/20 of a second after the picture is
removed. So the only time the man can really find
himself is in our minds.
“Finding Himself In A Thaumatrope” A Stop Motion Film
that deals with the science behind a spinning marvel
made in the 1820’s this object was a disk with two
images on it, For example a bird on one side and a
cage on the other, when you spun the disk the images
became one (a bird in a cage) What I have done is
shoot 2 stop motion films in the same location and
interlace every picture by switching the two every
frame while editing, As the length of the photos get
shorter the eye blends the two together.
This video participates in
CologneOFF IV – Here We Are!
4th edittion of Cologne Online Film Festival 2008
LAB program series