eleni kamma

Systèmes de construction II , 2008
Two stop-motion animation films projected simultaneously next to each other, 3:40 min

Excerpt

Systèmes de construction II is a proposition on how to look into a book. I produced a 50 page notebook by manually copying, page after page, the reproduction of a 15th century Turkish decorative tile. Going through the notebook from left to right, the form of the tile slowly shifts to Mondrian’s Boogie Woogie. From right to left, Boogie Woogie’s reproduction slowly shifts back to the Turkish tile. Confronted with the finished form of this notebook, in order to lower the inherent elements of this type of narrative object (the book with a beginning and an end, hierarchies),I decided to produce a stop-motion film consisting of two parts, projecting simultaneously next to each other two different versions of the same action: turning the pages of the notebook. Although this animation emphasizes the transformative nature of the notebook, the coexistence of the two asymmetrically mirrored parts disrupts and confuses the rhythm of the turning pages. The coexistence of the two equal-in-size projections produces a third space that superimposes itself on them, giving the final rhythm to the piece.

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