Tim Grabham (AKA iloobia) is a multidisciplinary artist who has independently produced still and moving image work for over 30 years. https://www.iloobia.com/ Comprising of short films, animation, photography and installations, as well as documentary and long-form features, his work has been presented internationally at festivals, cinemas, TV and galleries, and has won a number of …
Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos over the last 30 years. He has received funding to produce a number of films, but has continued to maintain a no-budget, independent, self-funded focus for much of his work. He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta), …
“In 1959 she made Odds & Ends, a short animated film that pokes fun at the avant-garde film culture of the 1950s. To make the film, she combined recycled travel and advertising footage with her own animations — made from paper cutouts, color fields, and line drawings — and added a “faux hipster” narration by Henry …
“Kerry Laitala is a media archaeologist whose works spans the territories of photography and expanded cinema performances to 3D single channel videos and sculptural installation. Laitala’s work synthesizes ideas and ephemera from the realms of science, history, and technology. Her multifarious investigations into evolving systems of belief involve installation, photography, para-cinema, performance, kinetic sculpture, and …
“Jon Behrens is a Seattle based filmmaker/composer. His work ranges from personal film diary’s to abstract hand painted optically printed works. In addition to filmmaking Jon Behrens is also a composer and has created sound designs for most of his own films starting about 10 years ago, as well as non film related compositions.” (https://canyoncinema.com/2019/06/12/now-available-seventeen-exhibition-files-from-jon-behrens/?fbclid=IwAR1og4F2ZIPAGv5_KmHWGpCYcmqyWb3O2pSyo_4XwzUQ4sTLnYiralIqbsE) …
You can see the influence of Norman McLaren’s painted films in the effervescent cameraless animations of Uruguayan filmmaker Eduardo Darino, who worked as both a commercial and experimental animator. McLaren wrote to Darino: “I’m impressed by your artwork, clean lines that move with precision and grace against the music, even more when I learned that …
The specter of nuclear cataclysm suffuses Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars (2014). Nishikawa buried his film in Tamura City near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. In 2011, three of the plant’s six reactors melted down after the site was hit by a tsunami that had been precipitated by …
Fogg has been making art in light for over 50 years, and “began producing Psychedelic Lightshows utilising Light Sculpture and Lumino Kinetic work in the 60s with many different musical genres, rock bands, classical, experimental, jazz and modern dance groups including work with composer Peter Sculthorpe and the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.” (http://fogg.com.au/)
“Albie Thoms was a key figure in the history of Australian film, and a general in the pitched battle in the 1970s to create an authentic Australian cinema. There was an ache in young Australians like Thoms in the early ’60s to create their own cinema, fired up by the French New Wave, the British Sight …
Androide Lightshow was started in 1968 by Robert Chouraqui, Claude Nougier, Constant Kaimakis, and Charles Baille. Hailing from Marseilles, the group made visual political art and visited the Roundhouse in London, where they saw the liquid projections accompanying performances by Pink Floyd. They began gigging regularly by 1969, and performed through 1975. They reformed in …