Animation

Teatro Della Terra Alienata (Theatre of the Alienated Land) is the name of the Australian Pavilion designed by the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the XXIII Triennale di Milano: Broken Nature. The work responds to the recent mass coral bleaching events that signalled the rapid decline of the Great Barrier Reef and frames its decay as a wicked problem that demands urgent and radical political intervention.

Teatro Della Terra Alienata

DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA
DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA
DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA
DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA
DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA
DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA
DAB Architecture, staff project TEATRO DELLA TERRA ALIENATA

This animation was created by Bachelor of Music and Sound Design students, in collaboration with Animation students from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. The films were screened at the September 2018 Surry Hills Festival.

Animation: Over Time

Every weekend he rode miles up and down the Great Ocean Road.

A flask of water clipped to his bike frame.

His helmet bopping with regular breaths.

Now he sits in a brown leather chair, working the leather at his side, searching for the right elevation.

The perfect tipping point for a glass of beer on the tv's horizon.

Sometimes it's hard to draw the dots between the years.

The points seem out of alignment and although you look for logic in the harlequin patterns.

There's nothing there but a dark tunnel with only the palest stream of light hissing in the distance.

'Over Time'

This animation was created by Bachelor of Music and Sound Design students, in collaboration with Animation students from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. The films were screened at the September 2018 Surry Hills Festival.

Animation: Museum

You were the one who told me what that word meant. A cabinet of curiosities, a wonder room of natural and unnatural history. Inside I met a loris with a toothache who helped me unpin the butterflies from their display. They flooded between the tree trunk ghosts of a rain forest and dragged their feet across the frozen nectar of ashen floristry. I told him of your crooked lateral incisors and of the way my chest feels when I think of you too much. I do not know who they are the scientists, the ethnographers, the map makers. But here we tip out a landscape of their spoils. The butterflies flutter against water, against glass. [Museum]

'Museum'

This animation was created by Bachelor of Music and Sound Design students, in collaboration with Animation students from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. The films were screened at the September 2018 Surry Hills Festival.

Animation: I Saw a Man Die

I saw a man die. Road rage. One punch. The old man toppled like a match stick. I didn't see his head hit the ground - but I heard it. It was a slap, of sorts. You think it would be a crunch or a crunch or a crack. But it wasn't. The guy who threw the punch just drove off. I wrote his numberplate on the back of my hand.  Then took a photo of the scrawled numbers on my sweaty skin. It's evidence, the cops say. The press were hawking. It started to rain; an excuse to run and run I did. A reported chased me down the road but I had no words for him. Just a slap, with a very long echo.

'I Saw a Man Die'

This animation was created by Bachelor of Music and Sound Design students, in collaboration with Animation students from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. The films were screened at the September 2018 Surry Hills Festival.

Animation: Koi

This video contains no dialogue. It is an artistic moving image piece, featuring caligraphy style drawings of fish, people and symbols. 

'Koi'

This animation was created by Bachelor of Music and Sound Design students, in collaboration with Animation students from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. The films were screened at the September 2018 Surry Hills Festival.

Animation: Amelie

I want to be Amelie.

Chop my hair off and put on a French accent howdy do-da.

That's all there is to it. Maybe I could take it one step further - I could move to France.

I would meet a handsome young man and he would look at me and explain his shock at seeing my beauty.

So cute! I would meet him under the Eiffel Tower that afternoon.

I would drink everyone in, swallowing their hearts until they tell me their truths then spit them out more moist than they will be.

And I would be Amelie!

[Amelie]

'Amelie'

Learn more about the Bachelor of Communication (Media Arts and Production).

Animation: Wildwood

This video does not have dialogue

Learn more about the Bachelor of Communication (Media Arts and Production).

Short film: Making of The Hunter - BTS of a sand animation

The Hunter is a stop motion sand animation made by Marieka Walsh for her Masters in Media Arts and Production. The work was made on the UTS 35mm Oxberry Animation Camera.

The making of 'The Hunter'

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.