THE WATERS OF CASABLANCA

A single frame from the classic film is transformed into six minutes of hyperactive animation. Although the process is entirely digital, it actually relates to the hand-made, or direct film tradition more than most computer animation. For my piece, a single scan of a still from the film "Casablanca" was made. Then that scan was then cut into long strips and placed into a long, thin image file in the photo editing program. The strips were copied into these long, thin, image files at several different resolutions accounting for different levels of eventual fragmentation in the segments of the movie. This image file has time-code in it and this allows the video editing software to split the file up into separate frames in the digital video format. Since I am not really cognizant of where the frames will be in the movie file when I am dealing with it as a single still image, there is an element of randomness in the compositions.