The title “ The Nature of Studio”
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Synopsis: Inside the studio, the physical activities cooperate with the uncertainty from outside, to construct meanings.
Twitter Blurb: Inside the studio, the physical activities cooperate with the uncertainty from outside to construct meanings.
Facebook Blurb: The construction of the meaning of the different artworks is a product of physical activities. When the creating process happens, the studio itself becomes the separated space. Within these spaces, how the inside physical activities cooperate with the uncertainty from outside? how the construction process proceeds from uncertainty to certainty? Innovation doesn’t go from the “one” to the “N” factorial, it creates something from nothing.
Credits
Director and Animator: Zhongyuan Zhang
Tate Team Susan Doyon, Elizabeth Robert
Music: Yin Lu
Biography
Zhongyuan Zhang is an independent animated filmmaker currently based in London with a background in illustration and graphic arts. He loves to explore different expression techniques to convey various range of human emotions and draws inspiration from surrealism and fantasy-related subjects.
Director statement
This Animation is to visualize William Kentridge’s words combined with his style and mine. I got obsessed with his technique which is the remnant of successive stages remains on the paper to provide a metaphor concept. From his artworks and lectures, I realized the construction of the meaning of the different artworks is a product of physical activities. When the creating process happens, the studio itself becomes the separated space. The main idea is to present how the physical activities impulse the creating process and how the construction process proceeds from uncertainty to certainty. In the film, William Kentridge works with different types of equipment and materials inside the studio while walking circling. The transformation that a skull turns into the William Kentridge’s Face represents the idea that Innovation doesn’t go from the “one” to the “N” factorial, it creates something from nothing. The main tone of the film is black and white, but when it comes to the metaphor concept in my story, I use the colors to highlight the objects.
Contact details
Name: Zhongyuan
Surname: Zhang
Email: 932504854@qq.com
Telephone number: 07762923369
Social media:
Instagram: zzzzzzzzygeorge
Technical info
Length: 1min 17sec
Size: 1920x1080 HD 16:9
Sound: Stereo
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