T62 - Gabriele Coassin workshop - CHRONO PHOTOGRAPHY and PRE-CINEMA

Описание: This workshop: ANALOGUE PHOTO TO PRE CINEMA ANIMATION
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ENGLISH TEXT
Can we make a GIF using a toy camera and a 19th century animation wheel?
It all started almost two centuries ago: a true genius intuited and explained the phenomenon of persistence of vision, also called retinal persistence.
Photography had not yet been born and so the first animation could only be drawn.
By rotating a perforated circle with 12 different positions of the subject, one person at a time sees the illusion of movement in the mirror.
The "devil wheel" is a jar with 12 slots: multiple people can see the animation.
Then comes photography, very still, long exposure times, the snapshot does not yet exist.
NADAR creates a self-portrait in sequence, 12 magical frames, on a rotating chair, looking at each hour of the clock.
He cuts out the frames and puts them in the zoetrope: perhaps it is the first photographic animation in history!
New bright lenses, more sensitive plates, fast shutters, allow for instantaneous shooting, and enhance the fluidity of movement of the moving mirrors, instead of the slits.
Here is where the work of Muybridge and Marey's sequential photography comes into play.
We will resume their tests here.
There will be no time, in the one-day workshop, to make animated drawings like these of my students.
We will make a sequence with modern analog photographic material.
Then we will go to develop, print in the darkroom and review the stop-motion on the old animation tools.
Lazily, to make our lives easier, we will play with a children's camera: digital shots printed instantly on thermal paper and transformed into animated GIFs with tools from at least a century ago.
Fun, right?
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Can I digress a bit?
The Indian pacifist lawyer Mahatma Gandhi said:
“If you take care of the means, the end will take care of itself.”
What does that mean?
I help you learn the tools, if you make them your own, then the ideas will come true on their own.
It's up to you to invent new crazy, experimental, creative, alternative applications.
That's all, folks!
See you at the next workshop...
Gabriele Coassin - Treviso - Italia