Collaboration project : I worked with artist Ursula Berlot to help her create this Video Vanitas self-portrait. 3D particle effects were used to create an aesthetic of fluid, organic & ethereal transformation. The video was edited to have a meditative, repetitive rhythm.
Video Vanitas – Self-portrait presents a hypnotic image of the continuous dissolution of the author’s face, skull and brain. The repetitive liquefying interplay between the exterior and the technologically-visualized exterior posits the question of visible and invisible, physical and mental. However, the image of the skull is not only a metaphor for the transience of life and the inevitability of death; in relation to the sound of rhythmic respiration it evokes death as a faithful companion of life and its faithful shadow, and in turn illuminates the meaning and value of life, heightening the consciousness of human existence.– Ursula Berlot
Role
Animation, art direction
Credits
Audio : Scanner
Client : Ursula Berlot
