This is how it started.
In spring 1998 the artists received the Independent Vision Grant to make a one minute short film based on the theme of Independence and Dependence. Inspired by Biographs’s 1890’s Film toy, the Mutoscope, we wanted to play with the idea of the Flip-Book, a series of flipping photographs.
As far as Independence/Dependence the Flip-Book is a metaphor relating to both the still image and the moving image; each photograph exists independently as an image, at the same time they are intrinsically dependent on the rest of the images in order to create movement and motion. The photographs are thematically linked through the motif of transportation and individuals moving throughout the world. We wanted to pay tribute to independent filmmaking as a celebration of invention and creative problemsolving and the experimental techniques that expand the language of cinematic expression.