Le Pas - Piotr Kamler (1975)

 

Sin Diálogos / No Dialogue

"Desnudo poético de una geometría variable. De nuevo más arte abstracto animado: una pila de papeles ordenados vuelan para formar una nueva pila de papeles. Dos hojas quedan suspendidas en otro lado para hacer el amor lenta y sensualmente antes de regresar a la nueva pila."

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Sitúo a Kamler como uno de mis favoritos precisamente por ese gran manejo poético-visual, borgiano casi abstracto, acerca del eterno retorno. Noción figurada en la simple metáfora de un cubo en desfragmentación, cuyos fragmentos se elevan, danzan, se aman ante un caótico viento, para después retornar y articularse como otro cubo, uno diferente pero a la vez el mismo; creando irremediablemente, y en paradójica contraposición al objeto cúbico, una noción de tiempo circular, un ciclo que podría repetirse eternamente. Cortometraje ganador del Annecy Grand Prix del año 1975.

"Beginning in the 1960s, Polish-born animator Piotr Kamler created 10 films combining techniques of animation, stop-motion, and early CGI.  His work utilizes simplicity and repetition to explore process and abstraction.  His methods are akin to the combination of musique concrète and sound synthesis techniques employed by the acousmatic composers he collaborated with.

(...) A cube transforms, with some difficulty, into an identical cube in a slightly different location. Le Pas explores process and repetition through the movements of simple objects in an austere, infinite landscape reminiscent of many surrealist paintings. Kamler’s delicate animation of geometry anthopomorphizes the objects, implying meanings that apply to our human world. (I will never again doubt the erotic potential of 2 animated squares.) As with most of his films, he displays his impeccable taste by working with a master – this time, electronic composer Bernard Parmegiani."

Between Process and Desire – 5 Films by Piotr Kamler

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Une mission éphémère - Piotr Kamler (1993)

One Ephemeral Mission / Una Misión Efímera

No Dialogue / Sin Diálogos

Una cápsula viene del infinito espacio conteniendo un potencial humanoide cibernetizado dentro, quien se irá formando autónomamente mediante la conjugación y constante movimiento de las formas que yacen dentro la esfera; hasta que, una vez completo el humaniode, comenzará a experimentar el manejo de las formas puras, modificándolas a su antojo mediante un extraño artilugio.

El carácter cíclico y creacionista de esta construcción será, talvez, una evocación al infinito; a ese continuo proceso que algunos llaman "eterno retorno".

Acompañado por la música de Bernard Parmegiani, un pionero en el campo de la experimentación con música electrónica,"Une mission éphémère" fue la última obra elaborada por el artista polaco. Este film combina el uso de Stop-motion y animación por ordenador, logrando así, una cabal simbiosis entre música, imágen y movimiento.

"Piotr Kamler was born in Warsaw in 1936. He is a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. In 1959 he went to Paris to continue his art studies. it was there that he came into contact with Research Department at ORTF (directed by Pierre Schaeffer) and began to collaborate with "concrete" musicians such as Xenakis on experimental shorts (musical abstract films and "fables"). The ORTF Research Department which was later taken over by INA, was a hothouse for talent, enabling diverse artists such as Peter Foldes, Robert Lapoujade, Jacques Espagne, Jacques Rouxel, Andre Martin and Michel Boschet, Jacques Colombat, Jean-Francois Laguionie, Henry Lacam and Kamler to carry out a large number of bold and innovative personal projects.

With astonishing regularity, Kamler came up with no less than 8 unusual short films between 1962 and 1973. The films themselves were incorrectly described as science fiction-in fact they were much closer to the universe of Borges than to Space Opera. Kamler, who created strange, improbable but plausible world, began to explore a whole range of different visual techniques. Le Trou (1968), Araignelephant (1968), Delicieuse Catastrophe (1971), Coeur de secours (1973) all won awards at major film festivals (Cracow, New York, Mamaiea , Melbourne...). After Le Pas (Grand prix at Annecy 1975) Kamler went underground for a while until he resurfaced with the full-length feature Chronopolis (1982).

Kamler's animated cinema suggests a singular variety of science fiction; it was he who provided the original idea for the Shadoks TV series. Completely unalike to more conventionally linear and text-based narratives, Kamler's films instead explore a series of dynamic visual motifs. Typically, the conclusion of these films is less suggestive of resolution, than it is of recurring episode. What is most striking in all his films is the variety of visual invention that Kamler brings to each work - he is as assured working with clay (as in his feature, Chronopolis) as he is with ink and paper, or even animating digitally on computer (in the most recent work in this program, Une mission ephemere). These visual flourishes embellish some of the most amazing animated films ever made - an achievement which won his Le Pas the Grand Prix of the 1975 Annecy Animation Festival.

(http://timelostimeregained.blogspot.com/)

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https://rapidshare.com/files/2052142328/1993UneMissionEphemere.KamlerPiotr.www.nplus2.org.avi