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Press + 

(2009) 

is the work of Benjamin Ducroz a mediagraphics designer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. He used a variety of materials and sources including 3D, paper, inkjet printed frames, watercolors, water and ink to create this animation.

Latest creation by Benjamin Ducroz with sound design by Samuel Acres is a beautiful piece bridging digital and analogue in the form of this minute or so animated short. What may appear as a digitally generated animation is actually frame by frame composition created out of hand effected print-outs. See images below + watch the clip in HD.

 

Source: CreativeApplications.Net

 

 

Short Animated visual works from director Benjamin Ducroz, a visionary piece of production with a dream like aura that morphs and transforms in front of the viewer, a real treat for the eyes. Artistically created with the use of as little as, paper, inkjet printed frames,watercolour, and Ink. I’ve included some pre filmed snapshots of painted frames, seeing these makes you realise how much time and skill has been put into Press +, a piece that could of been created using more technology but Benjamin has taken much longer, to bring us this complete handmade feel. I really hope our readers appreciate how good this is, I think this sort of pure creativity should be celebrated.

 

Source: One Eight Nine

 

 

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Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film 1910-1975 (1979) is a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery in London from 3 May until 17 June 1979 on rare, essential and controversial avant-garde film history.

Hans Richter - Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde (2000) edited by Stephen C. Foster. Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I. (MIT Press)

Notations 21 (2009) by Theresa Sauer features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. Notations 21 is a celebration of innovations in musical notation, employing an appreciative aesthetic for both the aural and visual beauty of these creations. The musical scores in this edition were created by composers whose creativity could not be confined by the staff and clef of traditional western notation, but whose musical language can communicate with the contemporary audience in a uniquely powerful way. (Notations 21 Project)

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Jan Švankmajer (*1934) is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others. (Wikipedia)

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Study No. 7 (1931) - original title: Studie Nr. 7. This short film by Oskar Fischinger was one of a dozen 'studies' spanning the 1920s and '30s. This one is a gorgeous visual tone poem with a few small, dynamic white shapes popping decoratively out of a sea of blackness. (Dr. William Moritz, Canyon Cinema)

Giant Steps (2001) - Michal Levy translated John Coltrane's jazz standard into an animated visual – a geometric structure that stretches and careens to Coltrane's sax. In so doing, Levy illustrates the architectural thinking behind Coltrane's work, in which a musical theme defines a space. (FlasherDotOrg)

Trioon I (2003) by Karl Kliem. Music by Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Both elements of the music, an analog piano and a digital sinus wave, are represented by two overlapping visual elements: the fading sound of the piano by three abstracted octaves of a keyboard with the keys fading out just as softly as the tones fade from hearing. (Dienststelle)

Rhythm 23 (1923) - original title: Rhythmus 23. More complex than Rhythm 21, the film is nonetheless a logical extent of Richter's conviction that film is modern art. Again, the orchestration of basic geometric forms according to precise rhythmical patterns is the basis for this second experiment. (time4time)