Nick Fox-Gieg

animation

nick@fox-gieg.com

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The Little Bird of Disaster
format:   DV video
runtime:   2:40
date:   2004
tools:   Flash, After Effects, Painter, Isadora, Final Cut, Audition, Photoshop

This is a story about a little bird who claims to be able to predict the future. Don't trust him.

One afternoon in March of 2003, I came across a little cast-bronze bird statue in a museum. The label said that it was the Little Bird of Disaster, and it came from 17th-century Benin. Printed underneath was a myth associated with the Bird--and it struck me more as current satire than an old folk tale.

My animated adaptation was developed at The Kitchen's 2003 summer workshop. The speaking characters are real-time "video puppets," controlled with Mark Coniglio's Isadora software. The piece was actually performed, like they say, in front of a live studio audience (you can hear them in the background).

Premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival, 2005.



[ video ]
2:40 13.6MB

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