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PRESS RELEASE
Los Angeles , CA: May 15, 2006,
Silhouettes
& Shadows, the debut
short film by artist Andrew Lakey and director/producer Doug Brown launches
viewers into a surrealistic world of paintings-in-motion, and peeks into the
studio of the Hazmatt-suited artist that created them. Featuring
innovative animation sequences of virtual camera flight, over and around Lakey’s
mysterious and unusual interpretions of
powerful people. These artworks become the portals for a journey
into the detail and minutia of closely-investigated media; cascading, cross-dissolving super close-ups, and
tracking shots of Lakey’s subliminal portraiture.
Silhouettes &
Shadows plays to an original sound score by Eric Scott. The film
provides viewers the choice of three very different narrations, providing
beautiful narrative accompaniments - an English version by renowned voiceover artist Kris Erik Stevens, a Japanese language
narration by Hiroko Evans and a voice-synthesized robotic narration composited
by film composer Eric Scott. Bounding over visually-provocative painterly
realms, Silhouettes & Shadows are remarkable visions of remarkable people,
inventively portrayed.
The artist’s
assemblage of subjects come from places near and far. From forensic
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archeologists to film directors, from
football Hall-Of-Famers to remote viewers - Lakey’s collection of
interesting people and his selection criteria are as diverse and idiosyncratic as
the work. Silhouettes & Shadows subjects also include an author, a creative
director, a socialite, a gallery owner, a celebrity photographer, numerous actors, an alien
abductee, a magazine publisher and other fine artists from the Silhouettes
& Shadows private collection.
As Silhouettes
& Shadows takes macro- and microscopic turns, portraits begin to emerge.
Employing 2D animation and virtual
camera software, viewers are transported over the strange and beautiful surfaces of
paintings as if in a dream. Undulating flyovers and hovering close-ups introduce
us to hidden regions of the artist’s work.
The film also explores
several other subject areas Andrew Lakey is pursuing including his “Livestock
Collection” which features humorously deadpan bovine portraiture, and “The
Unencountered” which present us with strange spacemen and other alien forms. The film also takes us inside the studio of the artist; we see him painting in a HazMat suit with breathing apparatus, protecting himself from the toxic painting materials which nearly killed him after a decade of continuous painting.
http://www.andrewlakey.com
http://www.silhouettesandshadows.com
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