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Animated Journal (Long Version)

Video | | Paul Greer

I’ve been keeping an Animated Journal over the last year.

I’ve always liked the picture a day format, video diaries etc, and animation is, traditionally a long drawn out, painful process, this is me trying to free it up and make it a bit more ephemeral.

Stan Brakhage said that he considered what he did to be his home movies and these follow a similar vein.

I generally capture whats going on around me and funnel it into 250 frames.

Art doesn’t have to be a career objective, or a total obsession, or something you make money from, or even something that other people will like.  It can be just something you make for yourself, in the cracks of your life, and if you put it up somewhere and other people connect with it, then that’s cool.

It’s made using a variety of software & techniques including Maya, flip book drawings, After Effects, old cameras, roll film, digital photography and so on.

Journal Whisper

Journal Light

Journal Rose

Animated Journal on Vimeo by Paul Greer

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Las Polaroid de Tarkovsky

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“No es muy conocido que Tarkovsky, cuyas películas parecen estar compuestas a veces por un montaje de fotografías estáticas, se dedicó durante algún tiempo, efectivamente, a tomar fotos con una Polaroid. Estas fotos, a pesar de sus imperfecciones técnicas, atestiguan la misma forma de mirar y el mismo mundo visual de sus grandes films.”


Las Polaroid de Tarkovsky


Las Polaroid de Tarkovsky


Las Polaroid de Tarkovsky

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Hausu (1977)

Video | | Paul Greer

“The film company Toho approached Obayashi with the suggestion to make a film like Jaws. Influenced by ideas from his daughter Chigumi, Obayashi developed ideas for a script that was written by Chiho Katsura. After the script was green-lit, the film was put on hold for two years as no director at Toho wanted to direct it. Obayashi promoted the film during this time period until the studio allowed him to direct it himself. The film was a box office hit in Japan but received negative reviews from critics.”