The short film I directed over the past 6 months has premiered today.

Summarizing the film’s premise:
“In a Forest takes the viewer in an unexpected transformation from one reality to the next.”

That’s true.
In a forest screens as the opening film for The last airbender in 70 cinemas in The Netherlands.
It’s distributed as a 2K digital cinema file which looks so pristine it feels like the film is beamed directly into your visual cortex.

For festival screening dates, keep an eye on this site.

2 am on a saturday night: Bram Meindersma in the bushes with a candle and my jogging shoe.

This is not exactly what that looks like.

The opener for the 2010 Pictoplasma Festival.
Sound by Bram Meindersma. Picture by Fons Schiedon

The version above is viewable with good old red-cyan anaglyph glasses. Providing both an illusion of depth, as well as the sort of retina splitting err-what-the-hell-am-I-looking-at kind of effect I was aiming for. It’s all about beauty and pain, isn’t it.

But, people have preferences, so if you’re more into amber-blue, pink-green or fancy IiNnTtEeRrLaCcEeDd viewing modes, you might want to check out the video on Youtube, where you can choose these modes from the drop down menu (pictured below).

fig 1 – a “drop down menu“

Directed and designed by Fons Schiedon
Production: PostPanic
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Character animation:
Birdo
Luciana Eguti
Paulo Muppet
assistent animators
Pedro Eboli
Rafael Gallardo
3d truck model and animation
Luciana Eguti

Storyboard, compositing, additional 3d animation:
Fons Schiedon

We also made a slightly different version…eh…a tad less cute perhaps, with a track by Bram Meindersma:

Temperatures have dropped a little over here in the Bundesrepublik (exhibit A). In the warm and comfortable environment of my home, I suddenly found the “inspiration” for a tiny update.

Each year production house Submarine gives their employees something special for Christmas. Something special, as opposed to, you know, …kitchen appliances.
For last year’s gift they asked me to do a drawing (exhibit B), printed and signed in a limited run of 40. As may be clear from viewing the picture, it has as a subject several instances of Jesus, portrayed performing the act of imaginative brain traveling. Yes sir. In the most cunning fashion, the drawing incorporates several visual themes that apply to the company’s work and spirit.

B

and finally
Starting next week, some of my paintings will be in a (still somewhat secret) group show in Amsterdam. Part of profits will be donated to charity and part of the profit will be donated to me. Below is one of the pieces in the show (exhibit C).
More on this soon…

C  “A Forest”

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Installation view
Excerpt of “Prototype of an unstable vision”
video in a box, version 1

Snapshots of the opening at Concrete Hermit, November 6th.
Thanks everybody for making it to the event despite the rain.

Revolution Deformation will be on until December 21st.
There are some nice prints which will be made available through the Concrete Hermit online store soon. The original works are for sale at the gallery.

Impression of a video loop played as part of “Projector Spectre” in Breda, NL. May 23-June 29 2008

Directed and Designed by
Fons Schiedon

Character Animation
BIRDO

Animation Direction Luciana Eguti Paulo Muppet Animation Luciana Eguti Paulo Muppet Jonas Brandão Thomas Larson Assistant Animators Antonio Linhares André Bessa Bruna Brito Fabrício Pretti Gustavo Teixeira Leo Gibran Rafael Gallardo William Iamazi Ferro Concept, Storyboard, Compositing, 3d Animation Fons Schiedon Sound Design Bram Meindersma Production Nanna Kassenaar (Rooftop) Kiki Meijer (Pink Rabbit) Fons Schiedon For VOICST Tjeerd Bomhof Allard van der Werff Made possible by the support of TAX-videoclipfonds