Light Divides The Square
This work follows in the tradition of experimental cinema and abstract animation. It features “rippling caustics,” or refracted light patterns, cast by a virtual fluid body created in a 3D animation program. To create the light compositions I used the organizing forces of a square format for the fluid body and invisible shape-shifting objects to perturb the fluid surface and initiate the ripples. The images in this animation are not achievable in reality. For me, what is significant is the twist of using “high technology” to simulate the use of lower forms of technology in creating abstractions – in this case, capturing light refractions created by fluid and light. My overriding intent is to create beautiful light patterns with a dark undertow of shadows.
Credits
- Directors
- Kimberly Burleigh
- Producers
- Kimberly Burleigh
- Editors
- Russ Johnson
- Sound editors
- Russ Johnson
Screenings
- Autumedia
- Semantics Gallery 09/2013
- Tricky Women 2014 International Animation Filmfestival 03/2014
- Australian International Experimental Film Festival 05/2014
- Videoholica 08/2014
- Big Mini Media Festival 11/2014
- 8th Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas 11/2014
- MADATAC 06 – Contemporary Festival of New Media Arts and Advanced Audiovisual Technologies 12/2014
- IMA International Film Festival 12/2014
runtime: 5 min