Lucy Ellis is an experimental animator based in London. In her work she explores the digital and analogue through experimenting with process and materiality. She enjoys working with scrap and found materials repurposing them to form new identities and narratives differing from their original purpose or intention. The texture of materials is important to her practice, exploring how it evokes memory and time.
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01 DAZED X RABANNE ARTS FACTORY
Exploring the physical proximity between device and humans. Our devices become more than a phone or laptop, but become a friend, a romantic partner, an extension of ourselves as we share intimacy with the device...
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02 SLOOOG
SLOOOG is a three screen installation using the obsolete Nokia 5110 phone screen. The work displays an animation interacting the screens together. In the process of wiring this over ten screens were purchased seven of which broke exploring obsolete digital material in a technologically accelerating society...
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03 BITS AND BOBS
Exploring the interaction of motion and sound, and the further exploration of the digital and analogue. Through collecting materials, I explored the form of the objects as they are, and how they can be manipulated through stop motion. Using the act of poiesis (giving life to something inanimate), the interaction of sound to these movements...
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04 PIXELA-ZZZ
Pixela-zzz is a film which explores the frame as a perfect formulation of pixels and how this can be broken and distorted. Through exploring the processes of datamoshing and databending, we are shown figures which mosh and melt into one another...
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05 RIP-A-DOODLE-DOO!
In a world crafted from newspaper pages, rips and holes become mysterious caves. We are led through to explore the environment lying beneath the rips. The animation focuses onto one character who escapes the newspaper through a series of holes exploring the physical nature of the paper...
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06 Woofing My Way Round Town
The prevalence of small screens in society can be explored as a form of expanded cinema and increased accessibility to moving image. These screens become part of our mundane and our world view becomes cohesive with our screens...
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07 GIFS/LOOPS
A series of GIFs/loop animations in a range of techniques and styles!
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08 Collaborations/Commissioned
09 Archive
An archive of work I no longer like!