The Non Violence International Film Festival 2008

Glimpse, an experimental nine minute animated short, using stop motion photography, which started as a study of the life of artist and painter Willem de Kooning, evolved into a stream of conciousness narrative concerning freedom from imprisonment, and the impermenence of life. Drawing on top of slate from deserted schoolhouses, the artist used hard pastels to create a dark, uncertain world, sometimes concrete, sometimes abstract. With the camera set up with a timer on sixty second intervals, the artist was able to become more fully emersed in the drawing of the over forty-five hundred stills to complete the nine month project. With a soundtrack from Lower East Side native, Gary Michael Millus and animation by emerging artist and animator Dustin Grella, the narrative takes on a dreamlike quality better to be experienced, than explained.