Britt Kootstra

zondag, september 06, 2009

Arctic Dream

It took me some time, but now it is finished; my animation for Celluloid Remix. I used old material of an ice-breaker. Furthermore I used a printer, a pair of scissors, a scanner and a lot of patience. The film was made for Celluloid Remix and contains especially selected material of the Filmmuseum.

The ice-breaker made me think of the first true ice-breaker, Yermak, built for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1898. Yermak set up the first radio communication link in Russia, between Kotka and Gogland. The ice-breaker gained hero status in 1899 when she freed an icebound Russian battleship and, while on the same mission, rescued fifty stranded Finnish fishermen.Yermak became the longest serving ice-breaker ever.

I started imagining what the future would have looked liked if this small Dutch ice-breaker would have been involved in rescue-operations and important expeditions. That must have been a dream come true.

In my animation the ice-breaker follows his dream and goes on an expedition to Antarctica.

2009

.mov, 2:14 min.

sound by Arvid van der Rijt

zaterdag, september 05, 2009

MALAKTA logo

Last week we all joined forces to make an animated logo for Malakta.

The animation was made with the pixelation animation technique.

Who/what were involved?

One still camera

One very high ladder

One laptop

A lot of stuff

10 very active individuals

zondag, augustus 09, 2009

Kultur Cirkus - Kulttuuri Sirkus

Konstrundan meant Österbottnisk Kultur Cirkus at Malakta.
Lots of things were happening at our little circus. The white sheikh was there (Mustan Kabinetin Tarinoita - film by Marjo Levlin), Madam Magdalena (performance by Sarah Nelson), Österbottnisk Flea Circus (music by Arvid van der Rijt), to name but a few.
Together with visitors I made this circus animation.
Thank you Maja and Jukka, for the whole entourage and a great atmosphere!

dinsdag, juli 28, 2009

If I was here (and you were there)

From 22.07.2009 until 20.09.2009, Arvid and I are artists-in-residence at Malakta, Malax, FI.

It took us 4 days to get here and in the meantime we discussed our contribution to Konstens Söndag at Stundars in Solf. Almost immediately after our arrival we started working on what came to be the installation If I was here (and you were there).

In an old smithies cottage at Stundars Arvid recorded the sound of Sussi roasting and grinding coffeebeans. Then our foley session started and we added the foley images to the soundtrack. Our installation could be heard and seen at Konstens Söndag at Stundars in the original cottage.

It was a good start of our residency here at Malakta!

Installation with video and sound

2009

i.c.w. Arvid van der Rijt

4:49 min.