THE GARDEN (21st CENTURY AMATEUR FILM) In 1991 Waliczky wrote the script for THE GARDEN, an animation based on an idea which came from an old piece of Super-8 film, made over ten years before, showing a little girl playing in a country garden. The artist's aim was to portray the alertness and curiosity of a small child investigating its surroundings, and to evoke the particular sense of affection that children often inspire in us. To illustrate these lines of force, Waliczky devised a new type of perspective, the "waterdrop-perspective-system". The conventional notion of perspective, dating from the Renaissance, privileges the viewer as the person for whose benefit the depiction of the world unfolds and whose gaze completes the image; the stability of his or her position is mirrored by the fixed vanishing point. "Waterdrop-perspective" is a quite different principle which structures every object from the vantage point of the child within the space of the image: the objects grow or shrink as the approaches them or moves away. Thus everything in the space becomes visually distorted; the world is seen as a sphere and the child as its centre. In other words, the depicted world is the child's own private universe; shaped entirely by the child's movements, it is independent of the viewer who stands outside it and sees the dream of another. Anna Szepesi, 1995 |
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"THE
GARDEN (21st CENTURY AMATEUR FILM)" 1992,
second version 1996 Computer animation, video installation, 4' 27". Master: Betacam
SP Storyboard:
Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi Music written
by Tibor Szemzö, performed by Éva Posvanecz Software support:
Imre Kováts, Zoltán Császár, Pierre Dinouard,
Thomas Krol Child: Annamária
Waliczky Director of
photography: György Pálos Directed and
animated: Tamás Waliczky Produced by:
Wallada Bioscop Ltd., Budapest; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie,
Karlsruhe; CIRAD Laboratoire du Modellisation, Montpellier. Copyright ©
1992-1996 Tamás Waliczky, Anna Szepesi Distributors: Tamás Waliczky, Anna Szepesi, Wallada Bioscop Ltd. |
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Images copyright © 1992, 1996 Tamás Waliczky |
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"The Garden" in "Image and Bibliography" exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 1995 Pictures provided by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
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