Projects matching: Stuart Pound

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To the right, a distorting face inside a rectangle tries to avoid being classified as human - but fails! To the left, algorithms including Boolean operators seek to refine a description of image content with varying amounts of confidence.

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To the right, a distorting face inside a rectangle tries to avoid being classified as human - but fails! To the left, algorithms including Boolean operators seek to refine a description of image content with varying amounts of confidence.

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In 1961 Elvis misses his cue at a recording session and politely starts again. Analogue sound is converted to video showing the audio frequency spectrum, and a shuffle dancer from recent online footage dances through it.

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A barefoot dancer possibly contravening local laws busks in St.Mark's Square, Venice. His performance is captured from the internet and focused into 24 narrow panels to show pattern
and movement flow across time.

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Light is interrupted by a strip of old 16mm film seen under a low magnification microscope and is reflected from the surface in rainbow colours. Software simulates the film’s chemical erosion.

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An eye in close-up moves ever nearer to abstraction.

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An animation re-working of Jean-Pierre Cassigneul’s painting. The wearer of the hat remains impassive. The hat has a life of its own.

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Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the “knight at arms” and the “belle dame” might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest.

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An eating disorder speaks. This digital video made over twenty years ago has been re-framed in a higher resolution format. The unchanged poetry soundtrack is augmented with under titles for clarity. The abstract images shown were made without a camera, using computer software to mirror and repeat them across a now elongated frame.

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Colours blue and orange dominate. Dolphins navigate desert regions through rapid scene alternation

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Agile cross-cutting between images shows animals hunting in the snow. The soundtrack is a Roma song celebrating the coming of spring.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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“The angry sleeper stalks his dreams/hard from night to night”. Dirk Bouts's 1470 painting of demons carrying sinners off to Hell is the starting point for this not-quite-serious animated nightmare. Pachelbel's famous canon played on a musical box is the accompaniment.