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(2011 • Running Time: 4:08)
Director/producer/animator: Karen Aqua
Music & Sound Design: Ken Field
Technical Assistant: Julie Zammarchi
With support from: Roswell Artist-In-Residence Program & Helene
Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
The animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms
reside in a state of constant flux, reflecting a world of transience,
mutability, and impermanence. Through the metaphor of transformation,
this film explores the themes of malleability, instability, and
interconnectedness.
In the fall of 2009, Aqua was awarded a two-month residency at
the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in New Mexico. During this
residency, she started work on this film project, which represented
both a continuation and a departure from her previous work. The
starting point for this film was a series of one hundred small pastel
drawings created in 2007 while an Artist-in-Residence at the Wurlitzer
Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. She later expanded these images
from a two-dimensional realm to a time-based one, introducing the
elements of movement, transformation, and progression.
This film is rooted in the richness and immediacy of the drawing
process, using the metaphor of transformation (both visual and conceptual)
to explore the themes of impermanence, change, and instability.
It addresses relationships between the human-made and natural environment,
inorganic and organic, blurring the boundaries between these realms.
Seemingly permanent elements are presented in a state of constant
flux, suggesting malleability, mutability, and transience.
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| Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 2012: Director's Choice
Award |
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| ASIFA-East Animation Awards, NYC, 2012: Best Experimental Film |
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| Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2011 |
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| Tallinn Black Nights/Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams,
Estonia, 2011 |
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| Denver International Film Festival, Denver, CO, 2011 |
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| Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012 |
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| Tricky Women Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2012 |
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| Humboldt Film Festival, Arcata, CA, 2012 |
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| Anima Mundi, Brazil, 2012
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| Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2012 |
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| Wiesbaden International Animation Festival, Germany, 2012 |
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| Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2012 |
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| Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, 2013 |
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| Reel 2 Real International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 |
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| Arlington Short Animation Film Festival, Arlington, MA, 2013 |
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| FILMFEST DRESDEN, Dresden, Germany, 2020 |
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| Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, 2011 |
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| Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM, 2012 |
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| Best New American Independent Animation, Shanghai, China. 2014 |
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| In Sight, Lesley Univ. College of Art & Design, Cambridge, MA, 2015 |
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| Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2011 |
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| Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM, 2012 |
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FORMATS:
Digital HD Master File/DVD/HDCam
CONTACT:
Ken Field
108 Pleasant Street #3
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-233-1362
ken@kenfield.org
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