Films : Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey : all
animate! synopsis
AL + AL’s grandfather James Brown is a retired engineer and inventor living in the north of England.
The film re-fabricates his lifelong endeavours to break the law of physics and create a perpetual motion device. Free power for the people will produce a land flowing with milk and honey.
key credits
- director
- AL + AL
AL + AL
short biography
AL + AL graduated in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2001. They subsequently received studio awards from ACAVA and Acme to build a live-and-work blue screen special effects studio in London. Their work has attracted an international audience through film festivals, site-specific installations, gallery exhibitions and television. Their previous animate! commission Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey, their first film for television, was winner of the Centre of Attention Arts Prize in 2005.
June 2005
artist’s photo
January 2006
animate! films by this artist
Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey
artist’s website
AL + AL’s website
a film by AL + AL
direction
- director
- AL + AL
support
- primary funding
an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4
© AL + AL 2004
Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey title card
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The 4th Shed
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The Big Hole
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The Way
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The Infertile Drive
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Staging the Death of God
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The Cross
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Elevator Descending into Absence
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Lamb Alchemy
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The Conveyor Belt
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The Power Station
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The Pursuit of Infinity
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The Land of Milk and Honey
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technical
process summary
Digital 3D animation sourced from authentic drawings, combined with live performance, motion tracking and self-generated sound treatments.
master copy format
- format
- DigiBeta
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- DigiBeta
- screen aspect ratio
- 16:9
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
production material
reference images
- pre-production concept still
- Pre-production concept still
- pre-production concept still
- Pre-production concept still
music cue sheet
animate_perpetualmotion_music_cue_sheet01.pdf
promotional and other documents
- christmas greetings
- AL + AL’s emailed Christmas card 2003
- leaflet
- Emailed flyer for Till Death Do Us Join
- An exhibition of video, sculpture and site specific Installation by:
AL + AL
Keith Bowler
Orla MacCormac
Sherridan Stymest
in the crypt underneath St. Pancras Church, Euston Road, London NW1.
20 September – 4 October 2003.
AL + AL’s gallery work Till Death Do Us Join was completed during their start of production on Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey.
first public screening
- channel 4
- 15 November 2004
