'Animatoria' travel around the world. On their journeys they curiously register and animate everything they see.
The 'animatorium' is a low-tech tool Florian developed to make movies of paper models on-site, instead of using a green screen. The sunlight, the wind, the rain... The paper will absorb the characteristics of its surroundings, which gives the combination of scale models and video a surreal appearance. The moving elements use techniques from puppetries and old stage design. No computer animation, no stop-motion, only live filming.
There are two Animatorium typologies:
Animatorium A travels on a bicycle or a tripod.
Animatorium B makes maps in bird's eye view. B is showing the context of A's journey.
The concept of the Animatorium was developed during a 'designer in residence' experience on the farm of Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey in the Noordoostpolder with funding of The Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB).
(scroll down for 'making of' pictures)
This movie was made as a 'designer in residence' on the farm of architects/designers Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey in the Noordoostpolder. It tells the story of landscape transformations (sea to polder) and the transformation of the use of the landscape and its buildings (fishing, farming, new crafts). About the ex-fishermen of Vollenhove that rediscovered the formal sea and its new barns as a 'sea of space' to build the big floats for their flower parade. They became the pioneers in the creative use of space in the Noordoostpolder.
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This animation was made for a GPS route in the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands: www.kunstroutesbrabant.nl
Benedensas is a sea sluice gate with a long history. The animation tells in one minute how his daily job has changed in time: Make people pass from river to sea. Protect the people against the sea and the blue-green algae. Protect himself against... the people.
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Animatorium A:
Animatorium B:
Photo by Ruud Peijnenburg
