Vintage Grand Prix Honorable Mention
The PIN-ANIMA project consists of experiments inspired by the experiences of 19th-century pioneers of chronophotography: Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey. These primitive devices, which I use for photography, are capable of creating images that serve as the basis for short film sequences. The optics of the cameras, inspired by the human eye, can offer perspectives far removed from our typical experience of "seeing"—hence my affinity for exploring through multi-exposure, long exposure times, multi-lens cameras that split or mix images, showing the subject from multiple angles simultaneously. Such "visions" were also offered by the experiments of the pioneers of chronophotography. Although they designed cameras with still images in mind, their experiments hinted at the future invention of cinema.
The photographs show the effects of the cameras I use. These are cans, boxes, tubes, suitcases equipped with a pinhole or lens. From the analog images created, I obtain individual frames for animated sequences. These sequences can be divided into the following groups:
– Sequences made using the solarigraphy (solarygraphy) method, which include from several dozen to several hundred images exposed sequentially throughout the day with a single camera (the animation represents a month or year of observation). In another option, the animation consists of 29 images exposed simultaneously over half a year in separate cameras.
– Sequences made with cameras equipped with multiple lenses, exposing simultaneously and on a single image plane—this allows for the creation of various "camera movements" depending on the chosen sequence of adjacent frames.
– Sequences made simultaneously with 20-30 cameras arranged concentrically around the subject. The animation frames are not precisely aligned, resulting in the effect of a "jumpy" frame.
All of the experiments presented are labor-intensive, and in a sense, what I show here are merely attempts to record an idea. I like to think of this as just the beginning of my work.
Paweł Kula
Visual artist and experimenter. He uses unconventional photosensitive materials: plants and phosphorescent pigments, cameraless photography, constructs primitive cameras and optical toys. Co-creator of the idea and method of solarigraphy/solarygraphy (2000). He lives in Szczecin.
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