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Ultra Short Movie, 1999
RE ANIMATION
Film stills from television magazines were scanned, cut apart on computer, newly reassembled and animated. The trailer, transferred onto 35mm Film, was shown for a period of one month in a multiplex cinema as part of the regular programme between the commercials and the trailers.
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»Between commercials and trailers is an unusual 45 second clip to be seen: In a strangely bumpy film sequence a mystery story develops.
It begins in the operating room, switches over into american highway romantics morphing into a crime backdrop. Finally everything will come to an end in a chaos of exploding trucks. An intoxicating linkage of effects: Action-based cliches, zooms and fast cuts. In the credits everything reveals itself as a remix. Film stills from TV magazines were digitized via scanner and awoken to new life through animation software. The visual appetizers for the nightly TV experience are being transformed into a meta-trailer for the imaginary action film.
Fred Fröhlich's RE ANIMATION is an amplified reflection of a culture hungry for arousal, in which the glossy packaging assumes a life of it's own and promises experiences that the announced product is unable to fulfill.«
Joachim Penzel, Re animation.
A Self-stimulation without End,
in: Extended Happy Future
Halle, Germany 1999
© 1994-2008 Fred Fröhlich
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Stills from the 35 mm film
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