Muybridge birthday
Today is Mr. Muybridge birthday, and this Year I have another reason to mention it. He invented the zoopraxiscope, that inspired this video.
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Demoni on Motionographer
The brilliant animator and director Michelle Higa posts about Demoni on the MOTIONOGRAPHER bible as well…
Demoni on Cartoonbrew
And as usual Amid Amidi nails it best:
Ushev, whose artwork tends to be dramatic (Lipsett Diaries, Tower Bawher, Drux Flux), takes a light-hearted turn in this video and fills a series of spinning records with playful bouncing shapes and figures. Graphically, he’s playing in the same sandbox as early-20th century surrealists and abstract painters. One imagines if Miro, Kandinsky and Klee had teamed up to make an animated music video, it would have looked something like this.
Screenings in the cinema
Le Facebook cinéma, c’est bon, mais voici les projections des mes films, qui ne sont pas distribué sur Net.
Prends ça court! en collaboration avec le Ciné-Campus de l’Outaouais à Gatineau:6 avril, ROSSIGNOLS EN DÉCEMBRE de Théodore Ushev devant LA BALLADE DE L’IMPOSSIBLE de Tran Anh Hung;
Cinéma Magog, QC: ROSSIGNOLS EN DÉCEMBRE de Théodore Ushev devant L’EXERCISE DE L’ÉTAT les 8-9-10 avril;
Jeudi, 29 Mars, Holland animation festival, Uttrecht, Programme 1
Lipsett diaries:
ExCentris devant le prochain film de Sylvie Groulx dès le 20 avril,
jeudi 31 mai 2012 à l’Actor’s Studio à Bruxelles,
et les deux films dans ma rétrospective au Cinema ELDORADO, le vendredi 27 avril à Dijon, France.
Merci a ONF et Danny Lennon!
Parce que il a rien comparable que de voir un film dans une bonne salle du cinéma
Demoni process
OK, as many people asked me, here is the process: Demoni was created using about 50 vinyl recordings. No computer was USED, except for the final editing. It was painted directly on the plates with oil and gel paint markers, and acrylics. Different speeds of the “Viking” gramophone were used to create the movement. Some shots were done also with stopmotion using a Canon 5D, Carl-Zeiss macro lenses. It uses the principle first cinema tool ever made, called Zoopraxiscope, created by Muybridge, and developed into a Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson’s Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system.
Demoni!
My new film for Kottarashky&The Rain Dogs.
Rossignols en Annecy
Oui, le printemps m’apporte des émottions… Ca va être une semaine hallucinent… Pour ce petit film, fait sans budget, comme carte blanche pour FNC, mais mon film plus personnelle depuis Tower Bawher, j’admitte, s’est le film que je me sent très attaché, parce que ce ma fille qui est dans le film, la petite fille en voyage… Parce que c’est dans mon fin, ou c’est le débute.
Nightingales in Tampere
Nightingales in December wins his first recognition : Diploma of Merit, Tampere International Short Film Fest. Some of the next screenings of the film : Monstra Festival Lisbon, Anifest – Czech Republic, Stuttgart Animation Festival
The Fathers and the Cats
It is the Dog’s Monday. That is a story, that I wrote for a…. More – in a week!
The Fathers and the Cats
On the old wooden fence of an old house, two fathers sat, barefoot. As they sat there, whiling away the time, one of them pulled a black cat out of his pocket.
The cat looked at him, meowed, and hopped away in the direction of the house. The other father had a chimney on his hat. He clapped his hands and a red cat jumped out of the chimney.
“Follow me, the two of you,” the red cat said. They followed her into the house. Inside, the black cat was holding the hand of a hen, who was reclining on a white bed.
“She will be ready for the wedding, don’t worry about a thing,” said the red cat.
“Wedding?” one of the fathers asked. “What wedding? We thought tomorrow was the Dogs Monday?”
“For you, yes,” the black cat said, “but for us, tomorrow’s a wedding morning.”
Then the black cat turned into a white one, and the red cat turned blue, and they took each other by the hand and disappeared into the sky, leaving the two fathers to wonder about the hen.
The hen sighed deeply. When they turned to look at her, she had disappeared. On the white bed cover, only a single white feather remained.
“I hope the sun won’t catch them on the road” murmured the second father.
“What a night,” whispered the first father. “A bewitched night,” added the second. “Take the feather,” the first said. “Yes, take the feather,” the second said. “Let’s wait till morning,” said the first. “Yes, let’s meet in the morning,” yawned the second. “We’ll figure out what to do in the morning.” And they sat, and waited, bare feet crossed, watching the full moon race across the sky.
On the old wooden fence of an old house, two fathers sat, barefoot.
In support of the free art exchange!
Another Mix&Mash – Drux Flux & Radiohead by TristanZapata300965
Ushev/Lipsett Clermont
The text that I wrote for the CF catalog page of UL program.
La physique de la tristesse…
Mes traces dans la neige… Février. Lipsett… Qui? LIP-SETT. Le cul-de-sac de la rue Coronet, Montréal.
Tu te souviens de notre première rencontre?
Oui.
Le carnet en bleu. Les films. Les visages. Les voix. Ça passe vite… Ils me font peur. Le rythme, un son effrayant.
Je n’étais jamais ou j’étais. Il y avait une forêt derrière les boîtes… De vieilles cartes postales et des journaux. Le film est un oignon. Les couches d’un mécanisme prédéfini. A la fin, tout le monde pleure. Ou rit. Ça n’a pas d’importance…
La physique de la tristesse…
Here is the official schedule of Clermont-Ferrand Shortfilm fest screenings of Ushev/Lipsett programme.
Ushev/Lipsett – CF
C’est du rock-end-roll, les dernières préparations pour la programme Ushev/Lipsett à Clermont-Ferrand. Ca va être hyper conceptuelle – en fait, un long métrage, construit des shorts! Demain – online pour mon nouveau film, ils seront 2 nouveaux dans le programme. Merci a tous les gens magnifiques d’ONF, qui pendant les temps du fêtes, travailles fort pour les finir…
Old works from the dust
Today, I was cleaning my old back-up discs. And I discovered very old posters, and designs, that even me, I’m not able to trace in the time…All of the works should be from the time interval between 1995-2000. But the biggest surprise was my first animation Flash film. The final render comes from 15th of August, 1999. It’s been never posted, at that time Mortadellatv didn’t exist yet. And after that I forgot about that film, I always thought that my first aniweb film was Aurora, from December 99. Which make it, one the first Flash film ever made… (There were some Flash series that appeared on Lycos (after Animation Express at that time, don’t remember exactly what month) The film is called WATCH. And I’m not able to convert it any other video formats, cause the ver. of Flash is…2.0. Have to work on it…
Drux Flux remixes
Videos for Chineese Man and Wax Tailor mixed by VJ EX-KAF-K using Drux Flux.
From CutOut fest, Queretaro
Pressconference at Queretaro, Mexico. And yes, I believe in what I say…
Mexico
I’m out to Mexico for CutOut fest in Queretaro, to serve as a Jury, and give a talk about the film, animation, and everything else, You know… The list of the amazing speakers will include Fluorescent Hill, David O’Reilly, Tokyo Plastic, Julia Pott.
My conference will include some never seen before newbies, and it won’t have any walruses or dating conversations this time, I promise! But it will have something else, arghhh… The full schedule – here.
The Art of Nightingales
Many people asked me for posting some stills and art from the film “Nightingales in December”. Here they are.
Die Lipsett tagebucher
While “Lipsett…” is not officially online yet, someone posted an illegal version on Utube…in German. And I love how it sounds!