Films and animations of paintings

This is an initial exploration of merging static images with moving ones, along with a prose* poetry audio track. These are old paintings, but they’ve given me some ideas. All of the elements are my own. *Every time I mention prose poetry, I look it up but I still have no idea. My working definition is that it involves text that doesn’t claim to be a poem but is structured similarly, uses words in a poetic manner – some of them unusual, flows like a stream that makes its own banks, and that has none of the rigidity of a … Continue reading Films and animations of paintings

‘Drums of a Dying Nation’

Anyone with half an eye on the political goings on in the US will know what this means. It emerged without intention from some experiments with sound and film construction and said its piece. The main driver for it had been some issues with copyright relating to the use of a music track via Epidemic Sound that I am still hoping I can use with an AR overlay to a painting that will be in a forthcoming book. I had the composer’s permission to use it but needed to check with the hosting platform. Their questions seem to assume that … Continue reading ‘Drums of a Dying Nation’