Out in the Open (2017)
A research based animated story created and screened at the Queen Victoria Market about a trader’s connection to the market and the sentiments existing below the surface of the hustle and bustle.
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2017 Willoughby Arts Biennial
Willoughby, NSW, Australia2017 Melbourne International Animation Festival, VIC, Australia
2017 Puppet Is A Human Too Festival, Poland
2017 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Sapporo, Japan
2017 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK
2017 Craft Animation Festival, Indonesia
2017 Sommets du cinéma d’animation,
Montreal, Canada2018 Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival,
Austria -
Written, Directed and Animated by
Isobel Knowles & Van SowerwineSound
Byron Scullin & Camilla HannanFoley
Gerry Long & Scott HemingPuppet & Wardrobe
Fiona EdwardsSet
Madeleine GriffithHeart Sculpt
Victoria MasonColourist
Daniel StonehouseCarpentry
Wade Lovich & Simon MacEwanBox Modification
Danny GelaiExtra Hands
Bianka Basic, Rebecca Hayes, Cat Rabbit, Sera Tuitaru, Paula van BeekExtra Eyes
Kristoffer Paulson, Anna JeffriesThanks
Mattt Bags, Jason Patterson, Maureen Watts, Benjamin Portas, James Cecil, Like ButterOur deepest thanks to everyone at the Queen Victoria Market.
When you spend fifty years of your life waking up to work before dawn, just what are you getting up for?
Out In The Open tells the story of a trader’s struggle to stay relevant in a changing world. Using stop-motion animation and sound, co-directors Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine have created a surreal, imagined future where age-old tradition has been left behind.
Animated puppets and miniature models narrate a hidden side of the market and the deep relationship a trader has with his place of work. Ultimately, Knowles and Sowerwine ask audiences to contemplate: what exactly is being sold?
Duration: 10’44”
Completed April 2017
Installation
Out In The Open was originally created as a site specific video installation for the 2016 Melbourne Festival. We installed a television inside one of the life-sized metal boxes which our story is centred around. We created a cinema space for audience to sit and in the surrounding boxes our sound designer Byron Scullin installed speakers which rumbled the shelves of the boxes to enhance the soundtrack. We showed it in “Shed A” at the market and sat with it amongst the traders while market shoppers, traders and art festival public came and sat with George.
