
Mungo Thomson
Volume 5. Sideways Thought, 2020-2022
4K video with sound, 8:09 minutes
Original Score by Ernst Karel
Original Score by Ernst Karel
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The video Volume 5. Sideways Thought is part of Time Life, a series of stop-motion animations that use reference encyclopedias, photo books and instructional manuals as their raw material. The...
The video Volume 5. Sideways Thought is part of Time Life, a series of stop-motion animations that use reference encyclopedias, photo books and instructional manuals as their raw material. The project imagines these books being scanned by a high-speed robotic book scanner, the kind used by universities and tech companies to archive libraries. Time Life proposes such a device as a new kind of filmmaking apparatus: a machine making flip-book-like animations, spitting out short anthropological essays while digitizing books for the Internet.
Volume 5. Sideways Thought is a motion study of the complete works of Auguste Rodin, made by aggregating every possible photographic view of Rodin’s sculptures found in books on his work. Thomson assembles 360-degree revolutions around each sculpture, approximating a 3D digital scan of Rodin’s corpus using only 2D analog materials. The original musical score is by Ernst Karel, a musician and sound artist and co-director of the 2020 film Expedition Content.
link to video: https://vimeo.com/745396528?share=copy
Volume 5. Sideways Thought is a motion study of the complete works of Auguste Rodin, made by aggregating every possible photographic view of Rodin’s sculptures found in books on his work. Thomson assembles 360-degree revolutions around each sculpture, approximating a 3D digital scan of Rodin’s corpus using only 2D analog materials. The original musical score is by Ernst Karel, a musician and sound artist and co-director of the 2020 film Expedition Content.
link to video: https://vimeo.com/745396528?share=copy
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