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:: an animated short film based on inca sky ::
INTRODUCTION
In January 2007, Bradford City Council began a project to join local artists, musicians and film-makers to create work for the BBC Big Screen in Centenary Square, a central focal point for city events and festivals. Bringing regional creative umbrella groups Fabric and B-Media to make connections between the various participants and manage creative proposals thus generated, they intended for six short films to be made that showcased the artists' work in a new and unique format. This eventually debuted as part of the STIR Bradford festival in July 2007, in an event called This is NOT Cannes.
I joined a working group with Bradford-based Studio 163 to produce an animated short film called Flying Fox based on my art work Inca Sky, a dramatis personae of an Andean cycle of myths concerning the Milky Way and the Flooding of the World. Specifically, we decided to concentrate on a single story from the cycle, the story of How The Fox's Tail Turned Black...
One day a llama said to its owner: "In five days, the ocean will overflow and the whole world will come to an end. Let's go to the top of Villca Coto Mountain. There we will be saved." The waters covered all the mountains and the animals all ran to Villca Coto. The Fox didnt run fast enough and water soaked his tail... Five days later, the waters turned back and began to dry up. And still today the Fox's tail is black is remembrance of this. |
Since this myth referred to a flood in the sky, not the earth (as detailed both in the Inca Sky and House Of the Sky sections of this site), we decided to create an animation of the Fox escaping the Flood by running up a mountain and then launching himself into the sky to escape the floodwaters. He then finds himself back where he started in the Milky Way, creating a nice circular feel to the action of the film.
With Gary Palmer as producer, Adam Wells as principal animator, Stuart Howe as technical producer and Gideon Seymour as executive producer, my function was to adapt Inca Sky into an animation-friendly format, as well as produce a number of textures and visual elements for use in the film. In addition, as Abando I was commissioned to produce the soundtrack music which is downloadable here.
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