La paradoja del tiempo en animación (translation: a for animation)

Article for the first edition of Con a de animacion. An academic journal published by the Grupo de Investigacion en Animacion: Arte e industria Departamento de Dibujo, Universitat Politecnica de Valenci

The paradox of animation time. If the inanimate experiences real time why does it appear alive for a brief moment?

Joule, A. (2011). The paradox of animation time. If the inanimate experiences real time why does it appear alive for a brief moment?. Con A de Animación. (1). doi:10.4995/caa.2011.864SWORD

Salvage

Redundant military vehicles slowly consumed by nature over time. This hardware, built to withstand the heat of battle slowly crumbles and rusts. Trees grow from the hulks, metal turns to ferns, they sit drowned in pools of water. A metaphor for the battle that nature must fight against the worst that mankind can throw at it, and the tenacity that nature possesses. A short black and white experimental time-lapse film that explores the way in which nature colonises and eventually overcomes man-made objects

178.98

178.98 was shot in St Petersburg, Russia whilst Andy Joule was a guest at the Open Cinema Film and Animation Film Festival in 2012. Filmed on location over four days and nights in St Petersburg, Russia in August 2012. The film is a response to culture shock and translocation, a reaction to new heritage and history, sights and sounds, beauty and backstreets. A day in the life of the city. With such a short amount of time available the film was made as a response to the city and it's culture, with its structure only coming together in the edit, though the idea that it would try and reflect the hectic nature of the place from dawn to dusk in a variety of locations had been a major consideration

Ellipsis

The patterns of light as it moves through time and place reveal another side to nature. The places where we have been, the footprints of our existence that we leave are shown, brief glimpses of our interaction through our systems, our processes, our lives. The journey starts with hope, a brave new world with its structure and bold design. Bright, clean, optimistic. But time erodes, and hope fades as familiarity envelopes us. We see the decay, both physical and spiritual through dust and dereliction. But salvation awaits. Or does it? We trust in something bigger but intangible. And we return, sometime to the beginning. To a place of nostalgia, of reflection but also melancholy. The journey, cyclical, begins again, the spiral of our lives ever playing out, generation after generation seeking the same answers, with the same hope and fears, with the same sense of loss at the end of the day

Be Here Steryear

A music film for the musician William D Drake. Filmed on location in Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu & Alba Iulia, Romania and London

Me Fish Bring

'Me Fish Bring' is an official music film for the track, from the album 'The Rising of the Lights' by William D Drake. The film is a combination of techniques, comprising multi-layering, time-lapse, pixelation, 2D animation and live action

Four and five

The two faces of China, one modern and fast paced the other seeped in tradition. It was filmed in the temples, on the streets and among the farmers and fishermen of Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha and Guanzhou. 'four and five' was filmed over ten days in the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha and Guangzhou. Each city has its own flavour and distinct identity, but also vibrant relics from the past. Behind the steel and glass of the modern China, can easily be found the temples and pagodas, the fields and fishing nets so synonymous with the country. The two live cheek by jowl. In the film I have tried to capture this essence, the heady aroma of incense contrasting with the fumes and noise of the traffic, trains and aircraft all the time reflecting back to the contemplative nature of water, prayer and meditation

animmilus

'animmilus' was filmed between 1999 and 2000 whilst working at Cosgrove Hall Films in Manchester. It was shot using the short ends of 16mm colour stock. Filmed within a metropolitan sprawl there were pockets of nature, where if captured in the right way were indistinguishable from the rural environments. This became the basis of the idea - finding nature, the patterns of light through leaves and water, the movement of the waves, pebbles across a beach in contrast to the movement and patterns of light from the white noise static of a TV and old video tapes. It is a mixture of normal and high-speed live action, pixelation and time-lapse and filmed on an H16 Bolex. The film was edited by Leo Casserly at Flix Post Production and the sound was mixed by Alistair Saunders at Hullabaloo Studios. The original 16mm print has sadly vanished, and the Beta version was rediscovered in 2012 and digitised by Simon Allmark & Mark Elliot at UCA. It was fimed around the Mersey River and Chorlton Water Park in Manchester, in the studios of Cosgrove Hall and at Hall Sands and Berry Pomeroy, Devon. It was screened at the Kino2000 Festival in Manchester