SILENT ANIMATIONS (2020- NOW)

 DISSONANT LINES (2023)

 ‘DISSONANT LINES’ (2023) is the follow up to Lee Campbell's last silent animated film 'On Your Marks: Tension Lines (2020) which previously screened in a range of festivals and events including as part of a two-person exhibition at Sidewalk Video Gallery in Boston, USA in 2021 and recently at Global Fest 2022, Helsinki, Finland. Extending its predecessor, 'DISSONANT LINES' shows where lines and, this time, imagery come together and clash producing a creative disruption that leads to new images and lines being produced, borders dissolving and then reappearing. Clashing lines create new possibilities for redefinition.

In this film, the viewer gets to see the drawn pages being turned over, sparking intrigue as to what is over the page, underneath the page and on the flipside to the page being turned. The drawings were made by students at Wimbledon School of Art as part of an activity where Lee challenged the students to draw images conjuring up their ideas around the term 'collaboration'. They worked in groups and had only one pen per group. They were instructed to hold the pen together at the same time and move the pen together across the page to make the drawings. 

Like 'On your Marks', this film employs digital green screen to create fleshy layers seeping underneath and being revealed, and other sets of imagery coming through. The lines that you can see were made in the physical world using marker pens and paper. 

ON YOUR MARKS: TENSION LINES (2020)

‘Imagine you fell into Picasso’s mind, this is what you would see … the inside of a Surrealist brain ….’

Lines come together and clash producing a creative disruption that leads to new lines being produced, borders dissolving and then reappearing. Clashing lines create new possibilities for redefinition.  This short silent film employs digital green screen to create fleshy layers seeping underneath and being revealed, and other sets of imagery coming through. The lines that you can see were made in the physical world using marker pens and paper. The resulting line drawings were then documented and filmed where the camera moved across the drawn paper. Now existing digitally, the drawings were then layered over one another and green screen processes were applied to create arresting tensions between the lines. The marks without sound makes you stop from thinking about the moment it was drawn and now put into a different space the viewer concentrates on the layers – all these tensions in the lines being made.