Todd Christy
Orbost Secondary College, Orbost
Todd Christy
Open cage 2006 (detail)
DVD
2 minutes 40 seconds
Orbost Secondary College, Orbost
My starting point was seeing a documentary about Mies Van Der Rohe and being struck by ambivalent feelings of freedom and imprisonment, feelings replicated in the bush that surrounds my home town. For my animation I explored these feelings as experienced in both a city and a forest. I used images with strong and stark vertical lines such as trees, buildings and power-poles to suggest an imposing hostility, contrasted with the freedom associated with birds in flight, which are an ubiquitous presence. Animation allowed me to juxtapose elements of drawing, photography and image manipulation into one seamless work. I created the score on a synthesiser.
Open cage 2006 (detail)
DVD
2 minutes 40 seconds
Orbost Secondary College, Orbost
My starting point was seeing a documentary about Mies Van Der Rohe and being struck by ambivalent feelings of freedom and imprisonment, feelings replicated in the bush that surrounds my home town. For my animation I explored these feelings as experienced in both a city and a forest. I used images with strong and stark vertical lines such as trees, buildings and power-poles to suggest an imposing hostility, contrasted with the freedom associated with birds in flight, which are an ubiquitous presence. Animation allowed me to juxtapose elements of drawing, photography and image manipulation into one seamless work. I created the score on a synthesiser.
