Tamás Waliczky: Landscape, 1997, excerpt

LANDSCAPE

This 3D computer animation was originally created for an opera performance. The opera was about how we perceive time. The relativity of time became the theme of the animation too. In the end, the animation was not shown at the opera performance and was made into a stand-alone film. The animation is about a small German village on a rainy day and depicts the magical moment when time suddenly stops. So all the raindrops freeze in the air, creating an organic, 3-dimensional grid of space. The only living element of the animation is the virtual camera, which allows us to continue looking around the frozen village.

Tamás Waliczky, 1998

"LANDSCAPE", 1997

Computer animation, 3' 02"

Master: Digital Betacam

Conception: Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi

Direction: Tamás Waliczky

Computer animation assistant: Christina Zartmann

Assistant: Manuela Abel

Music performed by: Alex Kammerlocher

Produced by: ZKM Institut für Bildmedien, Karlsruhe

Copyright © 1997 Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi

Images copyright © 1997 Tamás Waliczky

"Landsacpe" in Bloom exhibition, Bury Art Gallery, England, 2010 Image is provided by Bury Art Gallery