Being somewhat on the periphery in terms of involvement on a project involving shadow puppetry,
Blackmilk Music video for 'Kimono Dragon'
and then to a lesser extent on one involving the proto-stop-animation of a mutoscope,
'Girl & Rabbit' short film
I think I can take part in the collective slapping of palm on forehead after seeing this beautiful marriage of the two concepts into something delightfully original and bewitching.
Dialogue by Kumi Yamashita 1999 Light, Motor, Styrene, Shadow
Although strictly speaking not constructed as flip-books, I can't help imagining an asynchronous flipping of these 60 installations would make for a wonderful aleatoric ambient soundtrack somewhat akin to György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes.
Speaking of ambient soundtracks, watching these anonymous profiles baring their most intimate secrets keeps reminding me of the misheard whispers of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing
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