Direction: Frédéric Bonpapa / Music: Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians, Section II ( Teaser: Pulse ). Performed by Steve Reich and Musicians. Used by permission of Boosey & Hawkes UK Ltd.
Watch full film here: vimeo.com/fredericbonpapa/lightmotif
Prix Ars Electronica 2014, Honorary Mention. Special Mention and Tele5 Special Award at Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2015. Awarded at Multivision 2014 for "The Best Music Interpretation". Special Distinction at Animanima 2015. Special Mention at Athens Animfest 2015. 2nd place on East-West Art Award Competition 2015.
Official Selection at Siggraph Asia, Clermont-Ferrand, Aspen Shortsfest, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Anima Mundi, Encounters, Giffoni, European Film Festival of Lille, Vienna Independent Shorts, Future Film Festival, Animatou, Message to Man, Motion+, Giraf, Future Shorts, Videoformes, ArtFutura, Fest Anca Slovakia, OFF Odense, Anim'est Bucharest, Milwaukee Film Festival, Anilogue, Tehran Short Film Festival, Short Shorts Tokyo, BAMkids Film Festival, Children’s Film Festival Seattle, Nice Short Film Festival, Lahore International Childrens Film Festival, Traverse City Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin...
Screened at TED Talks, Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, Mercedes-Benz Museum, CCCB Barcelona, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Erarta Museum, MAMAC of Nice, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, ICFFI Hyderabad, Transnumeriques, Tampere Film Festival, Anima Brussels, Holland Animation Film Festival, Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, Fantasia Film Festival...
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Based on Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians-Section II, Light Motif explores the possibilities of synergy between image and music through a semi-abstract visual form made of colored lights and geometric shapes, in the cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation.
