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PRESS RELEASE
Temecula, 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 into the
otherworldly studio of the Hazmatt-suited artist that created them. Featuring
innovative animation sequences of virtual camera flight, over and around Lakey’s
eponymous collection of mysterious, unusually-interpreted depictions of
powerful people. These works of art become the portals for a fantastic journey
into the detail and minutia of closely-investigated media and the
serendipity of cascading, cross-dissolving super close-ups, and
tracking shots of Lakey’s subliminal portraiture.
Silhouettes &
Shadows plays to a lush, ambient original sound score by Eric Scott. The film
provides viewers the choice of three very different narrations, providing
uniquely beautiful narrative accompaniments - featuring an English language
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.
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The artist’s
assemblage of subjects come from places near and far – a fascinating entourage
of unlikely individuals. From forensic 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 innovative techniques with 2D animation After Effects’ 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 poses the questions,
“Where does the art begin and end?... Where does the artist lose control of his
media and his message?… Where does art break down and become something else?”
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.
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