12.3.13

REEFER MADNESS #2

After the dancing girls, the dancing boys.  I took as my starting point a re-screening of a sixties play, Billie Whitelaw, factory, gritty and kitchen-sinky.  Anyway, the heavy rival for Billie's charms jumps from the loading bay and lands withstage-style 'cat-like grace'.  So into the moves - didn't THINK of West Side Story - just banged out some poses, which graduated into Capoeira, using white in the silhouettes.  I don't like the silhouette animations, typically of Romanian folk tales etc., they just seem cold and cheap.  The great thing about a silhouette is that it can expand to show a pose AND contract into - what?  Until it leaps out again. So, anyway, the experiment continues.  









23.2.13

REEFER MADNESS!




These are just an exercise, one piece following another.  It's in the same vein as my beatnik project, youth running wild as in 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire', trad jazz and wild stuff.