Tanka
"Tanka" means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
David Lebrun
Director
Also Directed by David Lebrun
Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.
Sidereal Time was filmed in 1979 in at Sayil, Labna, Xlapak and Kabah, small ancient Maya sites in the Puuc region of Yucatan. The film was completed in 1981 as a two-screen piece for live variable speed Super-8 performance. Sidereal Time was photographed at reduced speeds ranging from 6 frames per second to time lapse, and then projected at variable reduced speeds, both to fragment motion and to introduce a mechanical and sometimes hallucinatory shutter strobe. The film was recreated digitally in 2018, using various editing techniques to reproduce the effects of analog projection in the shutter-less digital medium.
Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.
Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.
Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.
Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.
Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.
The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great undeciphered writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.
The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.
