Another nebulous sequence with, as often, different elements drawn or shot on the fly, such as this photo of a Mediterranean sky where, in a weird way, some clouds undulate like the water they overhang:
the sky comes to life over the water
On a background of real aquatic surfaces, the compositions presented in the "clouds" section appear and disappear throughout the four movements of the sequence.
clouds
Pictures of clouds and airplane trails in the Parisian sky:
... and the compositions obtained by superimposing various graphic elements:
wakes and trails
Plane trails in the Paris sky, boat wakes in the Arcachon basin or the Mediterranean sea, pure drawn elements ... and sometimes the passage of a bird not really desired, but difficult to erase from the original video.
wakes and trails
Three snapshots from the animated sequence:
elements, over the course of the versions
Where we find the natural elements appearing in the last two sequences, in different arrangements and colours, in an almost unchanged chronological order.
First version of the sequence: a rather fast running of the elements ...
Second version of the sequence: slower running and the dominant blue colour ...
Third version: even slower, and all in black and white except for a few seconds.
elements, over the course of the versions
A few snapshots from the different versions of the sequence:
water, always, in all its states...
Water again, here in all its states: vaporous, liquid or solid.
first movement: the volutes emitted by the geysers of El Tatio in Chile, the swell near South Georgia and the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula.
second movement: the waves of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
third movement: the sprawling expanses of Lake Titicaca or the Pacific off the coast of Peru, and again the geysers of El Tatio.
water, always, in all its states...
Various snapshots from the animated sequence :
road, salt and water
A sequence mainly using videos shot during a recent trip to Bolivia, Chile and Peru, wich reflect a continuous movement in a setting of natural elements.
first movement: a long flying over the surface of the Salar de Uyuni, a salt lake with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres in Bolivia; depending on the places, the surface looks very different and is reproduced here as it appears, apart from a few rare digital treatments.
second movement: fast run on the salar, following closely, or from far away, the lines traced by the ground markings of a road winding through the Chilean Atacama Desert.
third movement: still in the salar, slow sunrise on the horizon; in the foreground, new salt surfaces in Uyuni or the vast water expanses of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Peru.