Sacrilege
music video, 2007
Artist: Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys
Director: Theodore Cormey
Art Department: Empire Snafu, Juliet Schneider
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Sacrilege
Ova
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director: Juliet Schneider
music: Charles Segal
title drawing: David Rosen
storyboard consultants: Garabed Setrakian, David Rosen
animation assistants: Chyle Crossley, Dorian Rose, David Rodal, David Rosen, Garabed Setrakian, Terra Friedrichs
co-editor: Garabed Setrakian
The story for Ova comes from a childhood experience of mine, attempting to incubate a wild bird egg. Like a lot of my work, Ova evolved over a few years, enduring three studio moves and several intervening projects. I started making sketches, notes and shadowbox assemblages relating to eggs around 1995. I started building the set in summer of 2000, but the actual production took place mostly 2005-2007. Ova had its world premiere at the 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival, and screened at the 2008 Northampton Film Festival. Ova also screened at The Brattle Theatre on May 3rd, 2009 as part of the annual Mayfair Film Program, and at The Coolidge Corner Theatre from May 15th through June 30th, 2009 as part of a new program called Shorts R Us. On July 9th and 12th, 2009, Ova screened at The Somerville Theatre as part of Reel Movement, and won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short.
Read a recent interview on Beanywood.
Title drawing by David Rosen
Below is a sampling of production stills, showing the set in various stages:
Too Lewd
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Too Lewd, 1998
Too Lewd is a simple motion test for the doll used in the Ova animation.
And So On
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And So On, 1997
An experiment in combining more than one type of motion. The first motion is that of the two dolls rolling the globe back and forth. The second motion is the building repetition of the image frame.
Embrace
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Embrace, 1996
This animation was made by capturing short video segments instead of stills. It combines live-action movement of wind with stop-motion.
Red Set
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Red Set, 1996
The Red Set was built as an exercise in scale model-making. I had originally planned to choreograph a Busby Berkeley style dance sequence, but I ended up dismantling the set. The dolls represent characters called Neoscientific Dancers of the Exalted Universe. I re-worked many of the ideas and materials from this project into my MFA thesis installation the following year.
Neoscientific Dancer II
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Neoscientific Dancer II, 1996
This is one of two animations made with the Red Set. It was made by capturing short video sequences instead of stills. It’s another simplistic attempt at combining character movement and background motion.
Neoscientific Dancer I
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Neoscientific Dancer I, 1996
This was made on the Red Set. It was shot on b&w super8 film.
Globes
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Globes, 1995
This is my first animation. It was shot on super8 film, and transferred to video.
