Strips

Strips

2009-2010, Canada, 35mm, b/w, sound, 5 min. 32 sec.

STRIPS was made in the context of an exhibition dedicated to the Painters 11. It is a group of Canadian artists working in abstract art in the early 50’s in Ontario. The Toronto Animated Image Society has organized this exhibition and asked to eleven directors to create 11 animated films in relation to a painter. I twinned to an artist named Jack Bush. He made paintings with simple almost primary colors, giving his work a very ludic aspect. One of his paintings that I liked: Stripes to the Right. It is a beige background with a red stripe and a blue stripe, and has become the basis of STRIPS. Then I found in the public domain old archive films of a striptease of the ‘30s. I cut them into strips digitally and I started to compose small digital assemblages, making digital travels, a little as in M. I’ve always been attracted by a cinema of research, in which the assembly, the juxtaposition of things, allow to produce ideas and a sense that it is not entirely accurate, as a written speech could be.