Digital Analogue Stop Motion Animation

Stop-motion animation seems like an overused technique nowadays, but this recent short moving image piece entitled “Digital Analogue” aims to refresh the format in a groundbreaking way. The clip was made with over six thousand still photos and carefully edited to get the maximum effect. Check out the in-depth description and video below.

Since the introduction of digital technology the relationship between camera and photographer has altered dramatically. Speed and accessibility have come at the expense of mystery, intimacy and tactility – qualities exclusive to analogue photography. Initially, and in reaction to this cultural atrophy, I composed a piece of music made entirely from sounds that I had recorded from a collection of antique cameras. Constructed using the digital composition software Reason, this piece carried a strong hip hop feel and seemed to connect past with future technologies. To accompany this track I created a video response that captured traditional, analogue techniques yet also had a strong contemporary theme.