The Shifting Face
The great artistic traditions of portraiture and self-portraiture have been taken up by contemporary artists working in film and video all over the world, seeking new ways to depict and study ourselves and each other. This curated screening features the best contemporary motion portraiture and demonstrates the inventiveness and ambition of a new [...]
DARREN DOUGLAS FLOYD
MOTION PORTRAITURE AND SELF-PORTRAITURE
OPENING RECEPTION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
The Cornell Council for the Arts, Prudence Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts at Cornell University, and Cornell Cinema invite submissions of motion portraits and self-portraits for a curated screening.
In order to make the new series of self-portraits, I’m working in a program called Shake. It’s an Apple program for compositing motion pictures. It can do lots of cool things. However, it differs significantly from other software I’ve used before because it uses “nodes” instead of tracks. Check out my node tree!
Self-Portrait as a Christian Saint
Self-Portrait as a Tibetian War-God
Self-Portrait in an Anasazi Pictograph