Liars ‘Brats’ by Ian Cheng
Monday, 13. August 2012 - 1:47 pm
Ian Cheng’s amazing video for Liars’ Brats deconstructs animation in a wonderful and slightly creepy fashion in the manner of CGI-deconstruction pioneers David O’Reilly and David Lewondowski. Looney Tunes’ devotees will love the easily identifiable storyline and character interplay… – and then he slaps in Liars, who are always up for it.
Ian says: “For “Brats”, I used a familiar animated narrative – hapless hunter vs. terroristic rabbit– as a format to grow a garden of signature motions. This collection of motions becomes material to recompose a new non-narrative choreography that animates the bodies of Liars. The Brats video documents this entropic haunting– from the ingredients of familiar meaning arises the terror of reckless non-meaning. A dog wanders indifferently through the animation, true to its nature.”
Liars
Brats (Mute)
Director: Ian Cheng
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Producer: Christian de Vietri
Performers: David Yijae, Max van der Sterre, Ade Chike Torbert
Assistant animation: Mike Liu
Motion capture services: Motion Capture NYC, Steve Day, Henry Brito
Thanks: Patrick Daughters, Micaela Durand, Zelda Roland, Rachel Rose
14. August 2012 - 12:24 pm
Fierce,
love it