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ANIMORTIS
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KALCYFI
ANIMORTIS
by KALCYFI
Kali van der Merwe
Simon Dunckley
Animortis is a journey into the realm of death.
In the expanding, contracting cosmic void, animal, bird and insect spirit-automata attempt to reclaim their mobility.
Guardian consciousness from the Animalia kingdom keep a watchful eye out.
This immersive film was created with found insect and roadkill corpses.
It speaks to our collective fate and current ecological crisis.
The abyss IS staring back at us.
CREDITS:
Up to a 100 million different species co-exist with us
We all depend on biological diversity for survival
This film was created with roadkill victims
and found insect corpses
Stop frame animation, Audio Edit
Kali van der Merwe
Visual Editing
Simon Dunckley
Noise, Final Mix
hashtag_blacknoise
Jacques van Zyl
Music
Warrick Sony
Additional music
Dax Butler
Astronomy photographic credit
ESO (European Southern Observatory)
Thank you
Amanda Jephson
Charl Laubscher
Jon Daamen
Niels Bastiaensen
Josh and Angela Miles
Neil Parkin
Claudette Barnes
Bionerds
Roadkill Skeletons
Philip John
Fuad Adams
Amanda Arp
Brian Amery
Sue and Jan Vingerhoets
Dominique Espitalier-Noel
Gabrielle and Benjamin Le Roux
Mark Davidson
Jutta Holzapfel
Kirren Dunckley
Many thanks to friends who alerted me to and collected roadkill animals that appear in this film
Originally produced for the
Centre for Curating the Archive,
University of Cape Town and
Iziko Museums of South Africa
for the Under the Dome Experimental Film Festival.
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ANIMORTIS extract
This extract is actually a circular dome master since one can't properly see a 360 film on a flat screen.
It was made in collaboration with artist and visual editor Simon, Dunckley and sound artist Jacques van Zyl (hashtag_blacknoise) with music by Warrick Sony.
This is just a 3 minute snippet of the 11 minute film.
Animortis premiered in November 2019 at Under the Dome festival at Iziko Plantarium Cape Town.
This project was supported by Centre for Curating the Archive at the University of Cape Town and Iziko South African Museums.
The film is a journey into death created with animal. And bird roadkill victims and found insect corpses.
It has also been, adapted for virtual reality.
Mortis Animatis
Over the last 3 years, I have been stop frame animating roadkill animal and bird victims as well as insect corpses. These individual animations formed part of ANIMORTIS.
First shown at the AfTeR LiFe exhibition at Iziko South African Museum 2018 as part of a 3 channel projection
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