INGRID BROOKER
Air & Kilometers- Kaki King Film Clip Launch
Ingrid Brooker has been busy in her bedroom. Busy animating miniature plastic people, cars, rulers and cameras, millimetre by painstaking millimetre, to create rich imaginary worlds. Stop motion animation is Ingrid’s passion. Accomplished in a variety of art forms including photography, painting and multimedia, Ingrid really comes into her own with stop motion animation.
Already her specialist style of animation and multimedia art work has scored her a swag of accolades including being one of 12 artists to gain an iCollect Film Grant in 2006 and having her work screened at the RPRSNT MTV Ident Competition.
Ingrid Brooker was approached by American musician, Kaki King, to create a film clip for her song, Air & Kilometers from her critically acclaimed album, Dreaming of Revenge. “I’ve always wanted to make music video clips,” says Ingrid, “It’s a format that really lends itself to my style of animation.”
Having seen her short films online, Kaki King approached Ingrid to make the film clip whilst on tour in Australia last year. She played Ingrid the song and gave her a free range to create whatever she liked. “Musically, the song gives a strong sense of perpetual motion,” Ingrid says, “Just from listening to the song it seemed natural to have a theme of driving and motion. Maps and measuring tapes soon got thrown into the mix to enhance the theme of distance and travel.”
Air & Kilometers was shot using miniature models and sets crafted out of cardboard and ephemera. “I enjoy using traditional ‘in camera’ techniques and try to avoid using any digital post production effects,” Ingrid explains, “As a result, there are sections of Air & Kilometers with clouds of coloured ink which could have easily been achieved by digitally compositing a few layers of different footage. Instead I animated these sections in a fish tank with all the sets and models completely submerged in water.”
Each second of footage is made up of 25 still photographs of objects moved in miniscule increments to create the illusion of movement. The end result is 140 hours work for a film clip totalling 4 minutes and 15 seconds. “Working with Kaki King was a very exciting opportunity. My work often gravitates to the dark and macabre so it was fun to work on a project that was a bit more colourful and cheerful.”
Ingrid Brooker launches the Air & Kilometers film clip on Monday June 23, 7pm at Horse Bazaar – 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne. Free entry.
