ipanemicenema (2007)

I made this video for a first year video class in the Intermedia/Cyberarts program at Concordia University back in 2007. If I recall correctly, the concept for the piece was to create three different vignettes that somehow represented texture, motion, and abstraction (in that order, I believe).

At the time I'd been watching a lot of early 20's and 30's avant-garde cinema and tried to work under similar constraints in editing with cuts and dissolves only and in using/outputting to Black & White. The name of the video is actually a play on Marcel Duchamp's "Anemic Cinema". The naming of Ambrosia Eggeling in the credits is a reference to Viking Eggeling, who is to me one of the most interesting and inspiring experimental film makers of that time.

Of note, my good friend Lucien Shapiro provided the hairball sculpture which, in haste, I negligently
named Nano Phil in the credits. Please check out his work, it is amazing:
http://www.lucienshapiro.com/

I also created the score, which is similar to the music I make as Tyconichi.
http://www.myspace.com/tyconichi

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tyconichi
• bearmod
• lucien shapiro
• beastmaster
• dolls
• magnifying glass
• viking eggelling
• marcel duchamp
• black and white
• avant-garde

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