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Stephen ARTHUR : Vision point
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 00:03:00 | conception, image, montage: Stephen Arthur | Distributors: CFMDC (Toronto), Moving Images (Vancouver), Microcinema, Inc (San Fransisco) | production: Canada Council Creative Development Grant in Media Arts | Canada | 2001

(c) photo: Stephen Arthur


J'ai utilisé une méthode originale de photographie en travelling, modifiée par la technique du timelapse, comme moyen d'expression pour créer un portrait du paysage de l'ouest canadien et notre relation avec ce paysage. L'observateur et l'observé ne font plus qu'un : le corps de l'artiste devient le mouvement de la terre, les soubresauts et les mouvements du paysage (dans la partie photographiée en dehors de la route) sont simplement dus à la taille de mon corps, ou à quelques-unes de mes enjambées. C'est une relation intime où on devient partie intégrante du paysage dans le fait même de créer une certaine perception de ce paysage.


Dank der Methode fortbewegter zeitgeraffter Fotografie verschmelzen Betrachter und Betrachtetes. Der Körper des Künstlers wird zu bewegtem Land; Sprunghaftigkeit und Fluss der Landschaft werden einfach durch seine Körpergröße und einige seiner Schritte hervorgerufen. In dieser intimen Wechselbeziehung wird man im Moment des Wahrnehmungsaktes selbst zum Bestandteil der Landschaft.


I used a novel method of traveling time-lapse photography as a medium of expression to create a portrait of the Western Canadian landscape and our relationship to it. It unifies observer and observed : the artist's body becomes the land's motion; the jumping and flowing of the landscape in the off-road part is simply due to the height of my body, or a couple of mystrides. It's an intimate relativity where you become an integral part of the landscape in the act of creating a perception of it.




___ Note biographique


La plupart des travaux de Stephen Arthur se compose, sur une période de 33 ans, des courts métrages expérimentaux, narratifs et des courts métrages d'animation, ainsi que des scénarios de longs métrages. Durant dix ans, il a réalisé des courts métrages numériques novateurs, en utilisant l'animation expérimentale bitmap, le travail de l'image, le métamorphing et la cinématographie virtuelle. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise des Beaux Arts en production cinématographique (Université de South California, 1981,) d'une maîtrise en neurosciences, et d'une licence en zoologie (Université de British Columbia, 1990 et 1977.)


Stephen Arthurs Werke beinhalten animierte, experimentelle und erzählende Kurzfilme sowie Drehbücher zu Spielfilmen. Zehn Jahre lang produzierte er innovative digitale Kurzfilme, wobei er Techniken wie Bit-Map-Animation, Metamorphing und virtuelle Kinematographie verwendete.


Stephen Arthur's body of work over a period of 33 years includes animated, experimental, and narrative short films as well as full-length screenplays. For ten years he made innovative digital shorts using experimental bitmap animation, photo-based hybrid media, meta-morphing, and virtual cinematography. He has a Master of Fine Arts in film production (University of Southern California, 1981), a M.Sc. in Neuroscience and a B.Sc. in Zoology (University of British Columbia, 1990 and 1977).


___ Expositions / Ausstellungen / Exhibitions

2001
- DVD Release: "Best of Resfest Shorts Vol. 1"
- Canadian Animation Retrospective, Casa da Animacao, Porto, Portugal
- Artropolis 2001, exhibition of contemporary art in BC - curated section by Maija Martin entitled "Super Natural" - CBC-TV studios, Vancouver
- Animation World Network - Art and Animation Showcase - Affiliate Animator's Gallery for Stephen X Arthur
- Best of the Northwest 2001 touring program, Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, etc
- Independent Exposure touring program curated by Microcinema, Inc./Blackchair Productions
2000
- Homage to the National Film Board of Canada ("Homage d' ONF: inépuisable pépinière de talents"), AFCA Animathèque, Paris, France
- Home Video: "100% Independent: A Selection of 17 Canadian animated short films, 1980-2000" produced by ASIFA-Canada and launched at Ottawa 00 International Animation Festival , Montreal
- "Frozen Moments: Implications of the Digital Revolution on Independent Animation in Canada" - Films and panel discussion presented by Quickdraw Animation Society - at Indep. Film/Video Alliance AGM, Edmonton, Alberta, at Ottawa 00 International Animation Festival and in Vancouver
- The Blinding Light! underground cinema in Vancouver as a prefeature short
- "Here is There, There is Anywhere: Canadian Animation at the Turn of the Century" - curated by Chris Robinson; Vietnam (March), Fredrikstad Norway (May), Vancouver (April), Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, (Vision Point)
- Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto) - "Independents" series, (Vision Point)

___ Festivals / Festspiele / Festivals

2001
- Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival ,Toronto
- Nomad VideoFilm Festival touring Seattle, Portland, SF, Berkeley
2000
- 27th Northwest Film and Video Festival (Portland, Oregon, USA)
- 3rd Vancouver Underground Film Festival, (BC, Canada)
- Ottawa '00 International Animation Festival Independent Short Films Competition
- 16th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany
- Regensburg Film Festival, Germany - Independent Exposure Programme
- Bellevue Art Museum Film and Video Festival (Seattle Washington USA)
- RESFEST Digital Film Festival touring at San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; Seattle Cinerama, London The Ritzy; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; New York City Tishman Auditorium at New School; Los Angeles Egyptian Theatre, Writers Guild Theatre, Directors Guild; Seoul Ho-Am Art Hall; Tokyo Laforet Museum Harajuku; Osaka MBS Hall
- Planet in Focus: Toronto Environmental Film and Video Festival
- Hollywood Shorts "Spotlight on Animation," Los Angeles
- Motion Arts Festival (Los Osos, California), USA
- Festival Der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria
- 5th Sea to Sky Film Festival (Squamish, BC)
- The Charged 60 Second Film Festival - (New York, USA), screened in side venue at Sundance Film Festival, (Utah, USA)
- "Canada Now" program at Animert Dager: the Nordic Baltic Animation Festival, Norway
- Black Maria Film & Video Festival (USA - Director's Citation)
- Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival (BC, Canada)

___ Site Internet (animation expérimentale) / Website (experimental animation)

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/xenos.html








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