Diluvio Gallery

Lucia (2007, 48.5MB, 4:01 min)

Exquisite stop motion work from Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León in Chile
who’ve banded together as the Diluvio Gallery.
We’ve shown some of Niles’s great stop-motion music work here before – maybe those pieces are quite intentionally more “functional”, quite consciously intended as belonging to a different genre, but it seems to me this piece marks a step forward from the jaw dropping technical facility of that previous work to something of greater substance.(In fairness, as we said then, not simply technical facility but technical facility in the service of a very singular and haunting atmosphere, an atmosphere nonetheless which remains unchanging throughout each piece. Something richer, more subtle & more dynamic is happening here)
Some of the middle section is a bit reminiscent of Kentridge but the work nonetheless has a feel entirely its own. In that feel (the sheer bloody minded attention to detail, the strange melange of the uncanny, the wistful and the innocent, the piece’s visceral impact ) rather than in actual technique or appearance it reminds me somewhat of the great Tale of Tales.
I’m handicapped by my lack of spoken Spanish so obviously my impressions are somewhat skewed towards the visuals (and the mood set by the voice…)
If anyone has time to do a translation…

Ceiren Bell – Baobab

Baobab (2007, 56.1MB, 1:56 min)

Lovely piece from UK based animator Ceiren Bell.
Although one can see the influence of Kentridge
(& how can anyone serious avoid him?)
she is clearly her own person.
I look forward to more.

William Kentridge

Automatic Writing (2003, 26.4MB, 2:59 min)

We brought you an extract of this piece by
William Kentridge a while back .
Now here’s the whole piece, courtesy of Lumen Eclipse.
Not only is it exquisitely made, you would have
to have a heart of stone not to be moved by it.