Lightyear.2003 3m prod Sok Cinema, d/an/ph/ed Dan Sokolowski. Ottawa independent filmmaker and animator Dan Sokolowski continues his remarkably kinetic kinetic /ki·net·ic/ (ki-net´ik) pertaining to or producing motion. ki·net·ic adj. Of, relating to, or produced by motion. kinetic pertaining to or producing motion. combinations of oil-on-glass animation and live action in his latest work, Lightyear (see his 2001 film winter(time) and others). The images for the film were shot over a one-year period around Sokolowski's rural home near Kemptville, Ontario Kemptville [1] is a former town located in the Municipality of North Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada in the northernmost part of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. It is located approximately 2.5 to 3 km south of the Rideau River. . Lightyear is divided into 12 sections based on the number of new moons, Twelve is a continuing theme with each section having 12 photographic images and then a corresponding animation that lasts for 12 frames, so that each segment lasts 12 seconds. Shot on an animation stand and made without edits, this rhythmic rhyth·mic also rhyth·mi·cal adj. Of, relating to, or having rhythm; recurring with measured regularity. rhyth  mi·cal·ly adv. hybridized etude e·tude n. Music 1. A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique. 2. A composition featuring a point of technique but performed because of its artistic merit. celebrates the natural world and questions our aesthetic responses to it. Echoing generations of Canadian artists The arts have flourished in Canada since the 1900s, and especially since the end of World War II in 1945. Government support has played a vital role in their development, as has the establishment of numerous art schools and colleges across the country. , writers, musicians and filmmakers, Sokolowski keeps asking: How do we interpret and express this landscape we find ourselves in? Unpretentious and searching, located somewhere between the live-action/animation collisions of Norman McLaren, the temporal investigations of Jack Chambers and image interrogations of David Rimmer, the work of Dan Sokolowski is both building and furnishing its own distinctive and distinguished cinematic home in the Canadian landscape. |
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