Peoples Republic of South Devon

Never a wicker goes by

August 31st, 2006

Britt Ekland running around the Haldon Forest in the nod! Calm down Stan Collymore, this aint that sorta site! Those people at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the Naturalist (schucks) World are up to some high jinks again, they’re showing the original Wickerman (Edward Woodward not Nick Cage) on Saturday at 7.30pm, with live musical accompaniment from The Memory Band.

And if that isn’t enough to get you animated (watch for the connection), also on show will be a selection from the animate! (there it is!) project including the award-winning Rabbit and two works from Devon filmmaker Kayla Parker. This is more than your usual animation (according to the blurb at least).

This is a 15+ event, so stragglers from the family art day (yes, there’s one of them going on too) are advised to sling their hook before kick-off. Booking is essential and the price is £8/£6 for concessions. For more info or to book call 01392 832277 or email info@ccanw.co.uk. But whatever you do, don’t flash your headlights, and if you’ve got one, keep the dog close and on a lead - Stan, you know what I mean.

Posted by Cptn

Sundog Media said: Thank you for this. We’re v. pleased that our films are getting a screening close to where they were made, and are looking forward to Saturday night - should be a weird and wild experience in the forest…

CAGE OF FLAME
16mm 1992 9min 40sec colour stereo sound

A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixillation to stop-motion of poison berries, pumpkins, fire and smoke; in some sequences the images have been manipulated by engraving and over-printing. An antidote to the vacuous sanitized view of menstruation largely promoted by advertising.

CREDITS:
Director/animator/editor: Kayla Parker
Camera: Stuart Moore
Dubbing: Paul Roberts
Performer: Nakinda Parker
Funded by an Arts Council/Channel Four Animate! Award Copyright (c) Kayla Parker/Sundog Media 1992

SUNSET STRIP
35mm 1996 Dolby stereo 3min 30sec colour stereo sound

A dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns, observed across southern Britain from Norfolk in the east to Land’s End in the far south west during a 12 month period. Over four and a half thousand time-lapse drawings were painted directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm leader using a variety of materials, such as lacquer, hair, bleach, net stocking and magnolia petals, to create this day-by- day animated diary of a year’s sunsets - including those obscured by clouds.

CREDITS:
Director/animator: Kayla Parker
Sound: Stuart Moore
Dubbing: Paul Roberts
Funded by an Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! Award Copyright (c) Kayla Parker/Sundog Media 1996

Entry Filed under: Arts, Society