MOURNING STAGE VISUAL EFFECTS(VFX) 2022
CLIENT:CARLOS MOTTA AND SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU
POSITION:VFX DESIGNER AND ANIMATOR
TOOLS:ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS, PREMIERE AND PHOTOSHOP
Mourning Stage is a film that uses a series of drawings as a performance score. I worked on creating visual effects using face-tracking technology to animate 2D masks created by the artist Carlos Motta and move in sync with Simon(e)’s Paetau performance.
These images depict different renditions of the devil in hell. Among this group of demons, there are feminized characters that suggest sexual perversions as typified by the Catholic imagination. In the film, Simon(e) Paetau interprets and responds to the drawings using her body and facial expressions in a ritualistic performance, where the body, fetishized and colonized by morality, is mourned.
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Installation views at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2022
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CLIENT:CARLOS MOTTA AND SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU
POSITION:VFX DESIGNER AND ANIMATOR
TOOLS:ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS, PREMIERE AND PHOTOSHOP
Mourning Stage is a film that uses a series of drawings as a performance score. I worked on creating visual effects using face-tracking technology to animate 2D masks created by the artist Carlos Motta and move in sync with Simon(e)’s Paetau performance.
These images depict different renditions of the devil in hell. Among this group of demons, there are feminized characters that suggest sexual perversions as typified by the Catholic imagination. In the film, Simon(e) Paetau interprets and responds to the drawings using her body and facial expressions in a ritualistic performance, where the body, fetishized and colonized by morality, is mourned.
Installation views at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2022
CREDITS
A video by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Carlos Motta
Performed by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Director of Photography
Lola Gómez Castello
Soundtrack
Isabel González Toro
Soundtrack Assistant
José Marulanda
Visual Design (VFX)
Fernando Gregório
Second Camera
Carlos Andrés López
Makeup
María Fernanda Cepeda
Titles
Lauryn Siegel
Colorists
Aleksander Bergan
Martin Backhaus
Sound Mix
Ian Turner
A video by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Carlos Motta
Performed by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Director of Photography
Lola Gómez Castello
Soundtrack
Isabel González Toro
Soundtrack Assistant
José Marulanda
Visual Design (VFX)
Fernando Gregório
Second Camera
Carlos Andrés López
Makeup
María Fernanda Cepeda
Titles
Lauryn Siegel
Colorists
Aleksander Bergan
Martin Backhaus
Sound Mix
Ian Turner
Lighting Assistant
Luis Hernando Cubillos
Sound
Jesús Guevara
Photography
Camilo Delgado
Field Producer
Juan David Correal
Production Director
Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto
Production Coordinator
Catalina Patarroyo Velásquez
Production
Oficina Inercia Películas
Natalia Ordoñez García
Camilo Cárdenas Suárez
Alejandra Gómez Osorio
Sara Loboa
Elizabeth Hernández
Location
Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
Co-produced by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus and Goethe Institute, Bogotá with support from XI Berlin Biennale
Special thanks to Alejandra Sarria, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
Luis Hernando Cubillos
Sound
Jesús Guevara
Photography
Camilo Delgado
Field Producer
Juan David Correal
Production Director
Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto
Production Coordinator
Catalina Patarroyo Velásquez
Production
Oficina Inercia Películas
Natalia Ordoñez García
Camilo Cárdenas Suárez
Alejandra Gómez Osorio
Sara Loboa
Elizabeth Hernández
Location
Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
Co-produced by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus and Goethe Institute, Bogotá with support from XI Berlin Biennale
Special thanks to Alejandra Sarria, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá