Relativity 2.0

This piece is a blend of the iconic lithography 'Relativity' by renowned artist MC Escher, with modern societies consumer culture. Throwing real people into the mix, therein bringing the art to life was the next logical step in contemporizing this famous piece of art.
I always wanted to have this piece projected, it made sense allowing the viewer to walk right up to it, and inspect the detail, therefore making back projection the only option. It also doesn't lend itself too well to the small screen, to take in the whole piece, projection is really the only real way to view it since the characters themselves are relatively small in their surroundings.
The Escher piece itself needs no introduction and is heavily ingrained into popular culture. References to it has been used as satire in in television shows like the Simpson's and in memorable films like Labyrinth. I used a blend of simple Blue-screen, and keyframe animation to realize my 4 minute looping narrative.
Having finished this piece, I am now far more intrigued with the notion of installation video, and exploring new and different ways of presenting my work, as well as shooting and exploring challenging ideas in post production.

Since the exibition was a complete sham and nothing was organized I thought I'd upload it so people could see it.

Starring Evan Barry, Liam Byrne, Kevin Herlihy, directed and cut by Luke Leslie

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Escher
• Relativity
• Student
• Bluescreen
• Mall
• commercial
• brands
• comedy
• lost
• frustrated
• Irish

[Alicia7777777]

Masterpiece... Many thanks.

[Lukiebaggs]

youtube - great ego massage.

[eatspaste]

way to screw up perfectly good art, did you think you were making it better?????

[Lukiebaggs]

Yes

[satyrix]

great stuff.

what you up to at the moment?

[Lukiebaggs]

Well this was a once off instillation piece, but was a fun little experiment. Check out my page to see my other work. Cheers for watching.

[BedBang]

goin up the stairs, and goin down the stars, and goin up the stairs, NOW GOIN UP THE SIDEWAYS STAIRS!

[TheFlipped1]

MC Escher's Mindfreak!

Funny Stuff! Loved it!

[44jesusfreak4]

oh my god i hate turning my head watching this

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

The Sims needs a building like this!

[funkytecvocmunky]

HAHAHA, you cant get out, all you can do is SHOP!

[Elderrion]

i would go insane if i was trapped there

[mkni123]

deadly

[kcdl]

If I was a god and I was going to design hell I would make it just like this. That muzak would drive you insane.