I've been a bit obsessed with Svankmajer since watching and falling in love with Jabberwocky at the Surreal House exhibition at the Barbican a couple of years ago.
His films feature puppets, toys, children, models, clay, animals etc in a delight of stop-motion goodness. They're eerie, surreal, enchanting, unsettling and sometimes darkly amusing.
I very much recommend the following snippets of videos to warp and tickle your minds.
Saturday 31 March 2012
Friday 30 March 2012
Land of the Lost Wolves
Own a tv and love wolfies? Then you should most probably fawn over this:
For best results, watch it wearing a wolfie mask.
Little Red Riding Hood graffiti
This LRRH themed graffiti was spotted and snapped by Andrew Beeston. It's sprayed amongst the CoMusica arches & walls behind The Sage, Gateshead.
Thursday 29 March 2012
I love Bat For Lashes, I love the woods, I love strange lights and magic and lunar creatures and I love the work of Julia Pott. So it's a good job she combined all of these things into this visual beauty:
Extract from 20 minutes of visuals created for Bat for Lashes one off show in Bexhill.
Director: Julia Pott, Robin Bushell
Animation Assistance: Matt Layzell, Will Crook
Production: Treat Studios
EMI 2010
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Wolfie projections
Solstizio d'Estate (2005) and Ombre dal Lupercale (2006)
2005 Solstizio d'estate / Summer Solstice
TEVERETERNO's inaugural event at Piazza Tevere illuminated the banks of the Tiber with 2,758 torches (fiaccole) around the perimeter of the site and representing the years since the founding of Rome. Artist Kristin Jones revealed a frieze of twelve grand She-Wolves by cleaning the patina of time from the embankment walls, and a one-hundred-strong international choir performed during the evening, conducted by composer Roberto Laneri.
2006 Ombre dal Lupercale / Shadows from the Realm of the Wolves
An all-night program of six sound installations paired with animated shadow projections on Rome's river embankment walls featured the work of a series of artists: Kiki Smith, Francesca Fini, Kristin Jones, Roberto Catani, Andrea Biagioni with Gabriele Manechhi, Gabriele Manecchi, Maureen Selwood, Daniel K. Brown with Erika Kruger, and Barnaby Evans. Composers included Alvin Curran, Eugenio Giordani, Roberto Laneri, David Monacchi, Nico Muhly, and Walter Branchi. One thousand torches (fiaccole) were lit along the banks of the river in Piazza Tevere, and burned throughout the night. The program culminated with a final musical composition by Walter Branchi to welcome the dawn.
Sunday 25 March 2012
Saturday 24 March 2012
Friday 23 March 2012
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