Stop Motion styled Animation

Good use of objects and traditional stop motion effects.

Hidden Track & Banksy - Visual References

"Post Videogames Exhibited" - Installation, Basta Gallery. Lausanne, Switzerland. 2003

"Pavilion" - Wall Painting, Horie. Osaka, Japan. 2005

"Better Tomorrow" - Group Exhibit, Supreme Trading's Annex Gallery. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA

"Graffiti meets Windows" - Karl Grandin & Bjorn Atlday. Var Hankyu Dept Store, Osaka, Japan

"Showroom Dummies" - London

Banksy

Reading List - Feb/March

Klanten, R. & Ehmann, S. (ed.), 2005. Hidden Track. Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag

Bachelard, G., 1994. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press

Greenberg, A. C., 1979. Artists and Revolution: Dada and the Bauhaus, 1917-1925. Michigan

Verkauf, W., 1961. Dada: Monograph of a Movement . Switzerland: Arthur Niggli Ltd.

Kuenzli, R., 2006. DADA . London: Phaidon Press Ltd.

Dachy, M., 1990. The Dada Movement: 1915-1923 . USA: Rizzolli International Publications Ltd.

Jan Svankmajer - Claymation and more...

One of the great Czech filmmakers, JAN SVANKMAJER was born in 1934 in Prague where he still lives. He trained at the Institute of Applied Arts from 1950 to 1954 and then at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (Department of Puppetry). He soon became involved in the Theatre of Masks and the famous Black Theatre, before entering the Laterna Magika Puppet Theatre where he first encountered film.

Svankmajer made his first film in 1964 and for over thirty years has made some of the most memorable and unique animated films ever made, gaining a reputation as one of the world's foremost animators, and influencing filmmakers from Tim Burton to The Brothers Quay. His brilliant use of claymation reached its apotheosis with the stunning 1982 film DIMENSIONS OF DIALOGUE. In 1987 Svankmajer completed his first feature film, ALICE, a characteristically witty and subversive adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and with the ensuing feature films FAUST, CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE and his newest film LITTLE OTIK (OTESANEK) Svankmajer has moved further away from his roots in animation towards live-action filmmaking, though his vision remains as strikingly surreal and uncannily inventive as ever.

Visual References

In the current phase of research I have been looking into the works of Dada and Banksy. Having established two very different kinds of art and working in different medium, these artists have a similar aesthetic style and speak volumes about revolution and change through their artwork.

I have also prepared a collage of some famous town squares for reference.