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posted on 2021-07-03, 00:00 authored by Dirk De BruynWhite Bat
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Experimental animation that draws the micro and macro into stark relation. White bat occupies a no-zone that separates you from your own body. White Bat is a virus dripping from the roof of your skull. Its violence and racism peppers your body through denial, numbness and avoidance where it festers.Publication classification
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HD digital Moving Image file - 12 min animationStart date
2021-07-03End date
2021-07-10Research statement
Background This work researches the visual and aural language required to communicate the dissociative impact of trauma. This requires an exploration of the liminal space out of which meaning arises. It asks the questions: How can denial, erasure and the resultant political tensions be communicated? How can technology become complicit in these processes? What is the impact of Trauma on the body? The researcher asks these questions by mapping and exploring the shifts of image collage to the patterning (McLuhan) associated with Visual Music (William Moritz) and Sonic behaviours (Jordan Lacey). Contribution What Bat is an experimental animation that draws the micro and macro into stark relation.It occupies a nozone that separates you from your own body. White Bat is a virus dripping from the roof of your skull. Its violence and racism peppers your body through denial, numbness and avoidance where it festers. This work iterates my research into the vehicle of a short film for international forums that explore the capacities of visual and sonic languages to communicate the impact of trauma. In addition to this, it places these experiences in relation to the covid-crisis and the impact of racism on the body. Significance This work was initially published in Revelation International Film Festival, Perth. It consequently was invited to screen at London international Animation Festival 2021; Antimatter Media Art festival, Vancouver, Canada; Experimental Animation Exhibition, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; İstanbul International Experimental Film Festival.Publisher
Revelation International Film FestivalPlace of publication
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