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Impact is produce in collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones
••• Link to Dee's web site •••
Impact is partially funded by Institute for Research in the Arts, University of California, and an Individual Artist grant, San Francisco Arts Commission
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Excerpt from Impact (working title)- video in progress. 3:05 min.
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Impact (working title) is an animated video, based on interviews with real people - family members, friends, and the extended community of people who are - or were - facing a death sentence. We conduct long and details interviews with people who generously share their stories and experiences with us. These are stories that almost never get heard, and we believe this project provides a rare opportunity to listen to these stories, as well as provide a place for the participants to talk about their experiences, and express their opinions, thoughts, and feelings. We have chosen to animate these stories based on each person’s face and gestures, giving them anonymity, but retaining their personality and intimate gestures.
Technically, after each interview, we choose short section we want to include in the final edit; then, we create a video version, based on the audio and video from the interview. The next step, we make some drawings, based on each person, and look for some more visuals we want to add - videos, photographs, and drawings of the surroundings. Next, we create a storyboard that describes, very much like a commix strip, the main events, camera movements and angles. The next step is drawing everything, frame-by-frame. This part is slow, as there are 30 frames for each second... The first clip we produced, at the top of this page, consist of 5,250 frames altogether.
Impact is produced in collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones, associate professor of art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in social, collaborative public practice. Dee’s artwork uses video, new media, installation and dialogue to investigate notions of public identity, community, politics and memory. Her video projects have been screened in Europe, Israel and the US. For Dislocate 08’s International Festival for Art, Technology and Locality in Japan she produced Are We There Yet? with Nomi Talisman, an interactive sound and video installation, which investigates locational identity through individual storytelling. For Fred 08 in the UK Hibbert-Jones produced a collaborative project exploring personal feelings in relation to economic policy and political insecurity. Since 2005 Hibbert-Jones has worked with collaborators on Psychological Prosthetics investigating relationships between personal emotions and public politics. In 2004 she was awarded an NEA Visual Arts Project Grant with the Berkeley Arts Center for Letters to An Unknown Friend an interactive new media work with Nomi Talisman. Her drawings have been exhibited at Galerie Califia, Zamek Horazdovice, Czech Republic and Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain. With Nomi Talisman and CRI, Dee was also awarded a San francisco Arts Commission Grant and a Creative Work Fund to support this project. |
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