DRAWN

Drawn - part one

Drawn is a project by Jeroen Cremers that offers international animation artists a platform for their animations. After seeing the animated videoclip of the Norwegian eighties band AHA his interest for the art of animating was born.
In 2004 Jeroen exhibited together with ao Fransico Valdes. When seeing Fransisco’s film Reagan he decided to make an animation himself. In 2010 his first animation “ Carnival 1” was a fact, shortly after he made “ Visitor” and the remake of his first animation with extra footage followed.
“ Drawn” wants to inspire, surprise, move and amaze.

The first selection of artists exists of international animation artists. Part one – the first episode of “ Drawn” - is about the use of animation and where the inspiration for the animation comes from. One artist works with real images the other draws at first and animates the drawings later. What makes one draw realistic and the other draw fictive.

The T-ROOM
Christinenstrasse 27
10119 Berlin
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Programme
Start 20.30 - 21.30
Three short breaks
Drinks

Björn Hegardt (born 1974) graduated 2001 from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts (Norway) and moved the same year to Berlin, Germany, where he still lives and works. Hegardt‘s figurative drawings and animations, mostly in black and white, are concentrated towards the distilled. Visual and conceptual he transforms and distorts everyday items and interiors, using tight compositions and a strong graphic line. Architecture and urban structures merge into formations with objects, creating organic constructions. He has been participating in individual and group exhibitions internationally, and is in addition founder and editor of the magazine Fukt for contemporary drawing.

www.bjornhegardt.com

www.fukt.de

Jeroen Cremers

Jeroen Cremers

For Jeroen Cremers his pen is his tool and his paper is his canvas. The previous years he investigated different materials and techniques, but he always returns to his passion for drawing and illustrating

With his work he visualizes his fascination with the dark side of men and society and subtly comments the world around him. His choice for his subjects balances trough his sense of humor; Jeroen’s work is sharp with sometimes heavy edges. His mark moves from subtle to raw.
In his drawings influence of Frank Miller and Tim White are clear to see, as well as street graphics and absurd movies are a source of inspiration.

Title:
Carnival 2010
Carnival was a project to investigate animation. It started as a study for movements but during the working I somehow tried to make it more a short story about the unconscience desire to see something spectacular and frightng.

Visitor 2010
Visitor is a story about a boy lost in a deserted world. He is looking for others or traces of them. Lonely he swims in a deserted surreal world

FILM INFO
Title: Carnival
Date: 2010
Duration: 1,05mins

Title: Visitor
Date:
Duration: 4,05mins

For documentation of these and other projects please visit http://www.trace-eneme.com

Marco Raparelli

Marco Raparelli

I use a variety of media in my work including: drawing, painting and video animation, although it is drawing that serves as the foundation of my practice. I describe micro-worlds where the banality of everyday life is continuously mixed with its surreal dimension; through the invention of imaginary characters, I focus my attention on the so-called “man in the street” and the environments that surround him. With an almost infantile gaze, without prejudice or judgement, my working practice is the elaboration of an ongoing diary that, at times, functions in cycles, but which never ends.
My approach to creating artworks develops from an almost anthropological attention to my surroundings, as I gather images, gestures and encounters that are then elaborated and transformed in my work.
The drawings mirror the imperfection of the characters that I portray, the same physical and mental improvisations. I utilize a style that reflects chance and liberty where gesture and mark making are fundamental, as I willingly accept mistakes as the basic precondition of the human condition.

Title
Abandoned Dog - 2008

Narration is the principal characteristic of Marco Raparelli's animations. Nevertheless, it is not a point of departure, but rather the consequence of a deviation of themes that are evoked by sensations transmitted from other images or drawings. The animations are free and extemporaneous deviations of images, which connect to each other to create infinite microcosms. Raparelli’s most recent animation tells the story of an abandoned dog who, while walking towards the sea, encounters different adventures, friends and nemeses and faces manifold abstract situations. The video functions as a sort of metaphor for life in which the dog plays the protagonist. He is an outcast who must cope with how to survive each impending new day.
The video’s soundtrack consists of a piano score by Cosme McMoon. In the 1940s McMoon often accompanied the American soprano singer Florence Foster Jenkins, a rich heiress who, while having mediocre melodious qualities, was able to perform thanks to being very wealthy. Both McMoon and Foster Jenkins were anthropological phenomena and their absurdist songs serve as an appropriate soundtrack to the video’s images.
Drawn Animation Berlin

FILM INFO
Title: Abandoned Dog
Date: 2008
Duration: 4,20mins

Title: Ping Pong
Date:
Duration: 1,28mins

For documentation of these and other projects please visit http://www.marcoraparelli.it/

Robbie Cornelissen

Robbie Cornelissen

Sinds een aantal jaar maakt tekenaar Robbie Cornelissen ook animaties van zijn gigantische tekeningen. In heldere lijnen van grafiet zet hij het typisch Robbie Cornelissen decor neer op het papier. Deze bestaat uit megalomane architectuur die gebaseerd is op vertrekhallen en stations. In deze kale structuren kan eindeloos gedwaald en verdwaald worden. Mensen zijn afwezig. In The Labyrinth Runner volgen we een jonge hardloper die geconcentreerd aan het rennen is. Het ritme van de ademhaling en de tred van de hardloper zijn hypnotiserend. De kunstenaar gebruikt voor het eerst gefilmd beeld dat langzaam over gaat in tekening. De kijker wordt het lichaam van de jonge hardloper ingezogen. De stofwisseling van de hardloper wordt vertaald naar een dwaaltocht door vertrekhallen, stations, magazijnen, gangen en baden. Alle facetten van dit lichaam c.q. alle spelonken van dit gebouw worden afgetast. We roetsjen in hoge snelheid van de trappen, worden in duizelingwekkende snelheid meegezogen over de roltrap, kijken door een spion waarachter de oogbol ons aankijkt en zien op tv-schermen in de controlekamer niet alleen de renner maar ook hoe het ene na het andere beeld wordt vervangen door pulserende bloedvaten. Soms lijkt de renner zelf achter ons op te duiken of voor ons uit te rennen in dit labyrint. Gevangen in zijn ‘natural high’ loopt hij leeghoofdig of hallucinerend voort.

FILM INFO
Title: Labyrint Runner
Date: 2009
Duration: 10mins

For documentation of these and other projects please visit http://www.robbiecornelissen.com/

Jody Zellen

Jody Zellen

Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles based artist who is currently a Visiting Artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists' books that explore the subject of the urban environment. She employs media-generated representations of contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations. Recent projects include "The Unemployed" a interactive data visualization at Cerritos College (Los Angles, 2009), a site specific interactive installation entitled "The Blackest Spot" at Fringe Exhibitions (Los Angles, 2008). Other interactive installations include "Trigger" (Pace University, NY, 2005) and "Disembodied Voices" (Los Angles, 2004). Zellen's interactive website "Ghost City" begun in 1997 is an ever changing meditation on the urban environment. "Crowds and Power" was the October 2002 portal for the Whitney Museum's artport. Other recent net art projects include "Without A Trace" (a 2009 turbulence.org commission), urbanfragments.net, allthenewsthatfittoprint.net, talking-walls.com and disembodiedvoices.com.

FILM INFO
Title: Seen, Read+Drawn
Date: 2007
Duration: 9,35mins

Combines found and drawn imagery from the daily newspaper as a point of departure to comment on the representation of world events.


For documentation of these and other projects please visit www.jodyzellen.com

Manon Bovenkerk

Manon Bovenkerk

Julia/Guiliana is an intermediate form of animation, cinema and graphic novel. The story is narrated in filmstills, comprised of delicate charcoal drawings and photographs of impassable modernistic architecture. Unable to truly relate to her surroundings, Julia sinks deeper and deeper into solitude and doubt. Is the woman she thinks she is seeing really her doppelgänger or just a hallucination? The film is an exploration of the possibilities of ‘sequential narrative’, as well as a personal declaration of love for a famous actress from the cinema of the 60’s.


Will you feed me to the crocodiles
Animated music video for a song by Goslink. A monkey yearns for beautiful girls and the jungle, while the city around him slowly falls into decay.


FILM INFO
Title: Julia /Guiliana
Date: 2008
Duration: 8,30mins

FILM INFO
Title: Will you feed me to the crocodiles
Date: 2008
Duration: 3,15mins

For documentation of these and other projects please visit
http://www.manonbovenkerk.com/

Edwin Rostron

Edwin Rostron

Edwin Rostron is an artist currently based in London. His work is an attempt to visualise the realms of the unconscious, taking inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch, Jim Woodring and the post-industrial landscape of North-East England, where he grew up. His animations have been shown at festivals such as onedotzero, Pictoplasma and the Australian International Animation Festival, and his comics can be found in shops and online at www.edwinrostron.com



FILM INFO

Title: Morris and the Other
Date: 2007
Duration: 4mins
Synopsis: A hypnotic journey through a bleak, shimmering netherworld, populated by a series of fantastical characters, all lovingly drawn in 2B pencil.


Title: Palmersville
Date: 2008
Duration: 6min 43secs
Synopsis: An unsettling depiction of disassociation, taking us into a world where identity and meaning fragment and break down.

For documentation of these and other projects please visit http://www.edwinrostrom.com

Aline Helmcke

Aline Helmcke

58 Pages, 2008, drawn animation, 6:27min

A daily newspaper's entire imagery is being rotoscoped succesively page by page, line by line. As the pages are superimposed the lines build up simulateously. Depending on the layout of each respective page, some parts of the screen get covered with a dense accumulation of lines, whereas other parts maintain their 'meaning' by remaining recognisable as representational forms.

Destrukt, 2005, drawn animation, 2:19 min

Destrukt is a drawn animation film which is built up on single frame drawings taken from political report photographs. These drawings, unusually complex for drawn animation, are being morphed from one key-frame to the next, blurring the identity of once familiar images. Thus, an impression of decomposition rather than a narrative structure eveloves. The sound adds to the surrealistic and unsettling athmosphere of the work.

FILM INFO

Title: 58 Pages

Date: 2008

Duration: 6,27mins

FILM INFO

Title: Destruct

Date: 2005

Duration: 2,19mins

For documentation of these and other projects please visit

http://www.ahelmcke.com/

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