Shorts
Edinboro Improvisation
Director: Charles Bandla
A hand-drawn experimental animation based on an animated drawing of a line that appears, transforms then disappears. The initial loop is repeated and expanded on by manipulating scale, orientation and rhythm. The visuals are accompanied by an original loop-based soundtrack.
I like the opening a lot.
As for the technical, did you use a mirror filter?
The music went a long with it well; did you make that on Garageband?
I voted for yours… abstract, but unique.
Hi Allyssa,
Thanks for support. To answer your questions, I didn’t use any filters on this. A single animation loop was used over and over. The new instances were set up by hand to fit the music track. All manipulation of scale, direction and time were made manually by trial and error. This was a hand made digital film.
The music track was created in garageband using loops. I like working with loops, it makes music more of a design process.
I watched all three films. Bandla (whom I met when we taught together) has the superior work. “Edinboro” offers an elegant visual surprise as the image grows from a line to a complex, abstract form, and back again, all the while exhibiting a strict, enjoyable relationship to the sound and beat of the music. The two films by others, while technically good, seem intellectually vacant when compared with Bandla’s.
Hands down the best film this week. Like a whirling kaleidoscope of ancient etchings, it is as beautiful as it is simple, fleeting. Nice work.
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