Art in Motion: the Aesthetics of Animation
Lecture by Stephan Leeper
Huntington University, Sept 26, 2016
Guide to Media and Quotes
1. Quotes
Donald Hudson
A transcendent view of art transforms the earthly for the purpose of disclosing a deeper reality to our existence here on earth."
Art is an important element of community that helps me to understand myself by questioning me rather than merely affirming me.
On Earth as it is in Heaven, Mars Hill Review 2 May 1995
http://www.leaderu.com/marshill/mhr02/don1.html
Mako Fujimura A Letter from God to North American Churches
"A painter does not merely reproduce what is thought to be seen by the eye. An artist’s task is to train the eye first to truly see . . . into the eternal, into the invisible.
A musician’s task is to hear, to listen to the sounds of the world. Bach. . . heard the echoes of the music of the spheres and sought to synthesize what he heard.
Do you not see what I see in a dancer’s leap? It can never be repeated, even in eternity. Yet, eternity’s echoes ring throughout the body, and I dance with them. --- God
A Letter from God to North American Churches, October 10, 2010
http://www.makotofujimura.com/writings/a-letter-to-north-american-churches/
Martin Buber "Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself."
GK Chesterton
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality…only means that… we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
Ethics of Elfland G.K.Chesterton
CS Lewis "Lucy's Most Beautiful Story"
The Voyage of the Dawntreader CS Lewis
Thomas Merton "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
2. Films
Pope John Paul II- A Letter to Artists; "Beauty Will Save the World"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLM3bql52Q
Be Gone Dull Care, Visual Music/Paint on film by Norman McLaren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svD0CWVjYRY
Pas de Duex or "Dance for Two", Optical film printing by Norman McLaren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXWWz5Tv_I
Fresh Guacamole by PES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y
Tchou-Tchou, Stop-motion animation by Co Hoedeman
http://onlineshortfilms.net/watch/tchou-tchou-video_8c9b5f5b2.html
The Owl Who Married a Goose, Sand animation by Caroline Leaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusYZ7eIhps
Father and Daughter, Digital/ Charcoal animation by Michael duDok de Wit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRRDQwOn7g
Hedgehog in the Fog, Cut-out animation by Yuri Norstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0jvJC2rvM
Amnesty international 50th Anniversary, Mixed media by Carlos Lascono
Un Jour, Digital animation by Marie Paccou
The Temptation of Br. Thomas 2016 Teaser