Light becomes a body. A letter dissolves into fog. A robot repeats a task that never stays finished. AFTERIMAGE is an original short art film connecting four encounters with media and installation art from the Venice Biennale 2019.
Using three supplied photographs and a GIF, this film moves between works by Tavares Strachan, Jitish Kallat, Marko Peljhan, and Sun Yuan & Peng Yu. Animated camera moves, a travelling thread of light and shader transitions form an editorial conversation between the works, accompanied by English narration and an original instrumental score.
ARTISTS AND WORKS
Tavares Strachan — the luminous figure in the supplied photograph. The specific work title was not supplied.
Venice Biennale artist context:
https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2019/partecipants/tavares-strachan
Jitish Kallat — Covering Letter (2012). Gandhi’s appeal to Hitler is projected onto a curtain of fog.
https://jitishkallat.com/works/covering-letter/
Marko Peljhan — Here we go again... SYSTEM 317, presented in the Slovenian Pavilion in 2019.
https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2019/national-participations/republic-slovenia
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu — Can’t Help Myself (2016), also exhibited in Venice in 2019. A programmed robot repeatedly draws red liquid back within a boundary.
https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/teaching-modern-and-contemporary-asian-art/sun-yuan-%E5%AD%99-%E5%8E%9F-and-peng-yu-%E5%BD%AD-%E7%A6%B9
The links between body, message, border and repetition are this film’s interpretation, rather than a shared statement attributed to the artists.
MADE WITH FRAMEWRIGHT
Created by Anton Biletskiy-Volokh with Framewright:
https://github.com/markoblogo/framewright
More of my work: https://abvx.xyz/
The original photographs are preserved. The GIF was lightly denoised, enlarged and motion-interpolated; processing does not recover missing source detail. English narration uses local Supertonic 3. The original instrumental score was composed with Tone.js.
CrossWarp transition: Eke Péter / GL Transitions, MIT licence:
https://github.com/gl-transitions/gl-transitions
Artwork and source imagery remain the work of their respective creators. This is an independent editorial art film, not an official Biennale production.
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