Director Statement
I am interested in the embodiment of processes, making the invisible visible through my videos, installations and paintings. To me, the excitement and challenge of the digital medium is that it is both at the same time. Digital processes can visualize almost anything, but at the same time does anything that is digital truly exist in one place at one time?
Overlaying my conceptual interests is my continued attachment to obsolete technologies such as painting, which continues to influence the aesthetics of my new media work. I feel my work is a hybrid and is about hybridity as it applies to media, and it is this back and forth that I find fertile ground for cultivating ideas visually and through the digital medium.
Production Notes
The animation has a macro-photography aesthetic but it is in reality all computer generated. Much of Leister’s work revolves around making the invisible visible, through animation he explores realms of impossibility made possible through the use of computer graphics. The accompanying sound emphasized the meditative quality of the fluid and rapid descent of a rain droplet.
To create the animation, Leister utilized an advanced fluid dynamics system which accurately calculated the behaviour of water as it collides into other bodies of water. Once calculated, it was textured and rendered to appear as realistic as possible. He treated the rendered film as raw footage, distressing through post-processing and creating an original electronic soundtrack.
Format
- NTSC 4:3
- Exact Runtime 00 hr : 03 min : 51 sec
- Print Details Color + B/W, Stereo
- Film Sound Dolby A Dolby SR Dolby Digital
- Aspect Ratios 1.33 (4×3 VIDEO)
Media
- Digital Animation
- Software used : Realflow, Reason, Pro Tools, Cinema4D, Final Cut Pro, After Effects