Stop motion commotion

I have decided to combine my shadow art and a stop motion piece.

I could set up a piece with my shadow art  changing, drinking from the glass and getting up and walking away. I could achieve this with film of myself doing this movement, or as a stop motion. 

Another idea could be a stop motion of all the items that have created me to move about ( as if alive ) changing and growing as they start to build  my self portrait. 

These items will move and dance around together, creating sounds as they do. The two washing containers doing a dance and the tapping sound would mingle with the plaster sliding up the structure sticking and crawling up the wood. 

This could look a bit like the Tetsuo - The Ironman - a black and white movie, cyber punk horror movie by the Japanese film director Shinya Tsukamotos. In this movie a man is taken over by mechanical parts and metal wires and slowly metamorphoses into a half human half robot type creature.

Jan Svankmajer was a great influence the Quay Brothers. His stopmotion work can be

unsettling sometimes and even political.

His piece named Dinner 1992, highlights we are what we eat and what we desire.

The piece starts with this actor adding hundreds of condiments to his plate, which is concealed by a multitude of bottles and containers.

After adding everything on the table, he grabs a hammer and nails a fork to his wooden hand, he then begins to eat his own cooked hand on his plate. Your attention then moves to other people enjoying their meals, consuming their own limbs, feet and even breasts.

Dimensions of Dialog 1982 - reminds me of Peter Gabriel's "sledgehammer' music video. This film starts with implements, tools combined with food moving about as faces and consequently throwing up all over each other.

The film then moves on to a couple sitting opposite to each other modelled in clay. This couple begin to blend into each other and this scene turns into an erotic mess of moving clay.

I loved the simplicity of the this film and also how it can be quite repulsive.