19.12 – 16.01
Impressiones en la alta atmosfera (Impressions in the High Atmosphere)
José Antonio Sistiaga, 1989, 70mm
7 mins
Impressions in the high atmosphere presents us with a hopping, popping, manic circle of paint and colour. Are we looking at the cosmos or does it depict the microscopic or atomic? Or does it portray a fizzing energetic excitement deep within all of us, desperate to explode out?
Throughout his career, José Antonio Sistiaga (ES) worked directly with film material without a camera, directly animating onto analogue film strips with paint, pen, ink, sand and seawater. His films are held in permanent collections, including Centre Pompidou in Paris, and both his films and paintings have been shown around the world.
Thumbnail Sketches
George Griffin 1977, 16mm
7 mins
Griffin presents us with a sketchbook full of small drawings. It could have been a flipbook but there is no continuity between the drawings. The artist proceeds to cut up the pictures and create a stop-motion animation with the freshly created shapes. Free from the limits of the sketchbook, they hop around the border of an ink rectangle, not bound by their new frame.
George Griffin is an American animator and artist who has experimented with animation ever since creating comic strips for his university magazine. His films include drawing, film and photography, and he creates flipbooks and mutoscopes as simple forms of animation. His work has been shown around the world including at MOMA (US).