Films : Animal Tragic : all
animate! synopsis
An unsettling take on the ‘natural history’ of our contemporary urban environment, recreating three reported incidents where humans and ‘friendly’ animals interact badly – a postman kills a dog, a dog attacks a child, a horse kills a cyclist.
key credits
- director
- Tim Macmillan
Tim Macmillan
biography
Tim lives near Bath. He made Ferment for animate! in 1999, using the time-slice image ‘freezing’ technique he developed at the Slade in the 1980’s (and which was subsequently adopted in The Matrix).
His gallery work Dead Horse won, very unusually for moving image work, a Citibank Photography Prize nomination. It also attracted the wrath of animal rights fanatics who sent his family hypodermic needles in the post. Animal Tragic is a wry response.
Whilst making this film Tim was also busy inventing and developing Flybot , an aerial robot to explore rainforest tree canopy which launched at the Eden Project , Cornwall, in September 2003.
December 2003
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direction
- director
- Tim Macmillan
support
- primary funding
An animate! production through Finetake for Arts Council England and Channel 4
© Tim Macmillan 2003
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technical
process summary
The film incorporates a major digital development of Tim’s own analogue time-slice technique. Simultaneous 35mm film and stills of a momentary event are transformed by experimental FloMo software into a spatial vector map, from which a virtual camera can float freely in space around the ‘suspended’ scene.
master copy format
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- DigiBeta
- screen aspect ratio
- 16:9
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
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