In 2015 I did my first project that mixed timelapse with stopmotion, at the Ressonar festival in Chapada Diamantina [video below]. Following the line of the project I had the idea to produce at Universo Paralello Festival.
It was a bigger challenge, because the festival has a much larger area and twice the duration, besides the whole festival being between the sea, the mangrove and the Atlantic forest.
The heat is absurd and the logistics of carrying all the equipment and charging the batteries made the production even more challenging. Sleeping in a tent on the beach and bathing in salt water, true adventure.
There were kilometers walked per day and several hours stopped at festival crossing points, capturing timelapse of the paths and stopmotion of specific actions.
It was very interesting to analyze the flow of people and how that community formed organically in a few days. How the food and camping logistics worked, the flow of artists and workers 24 hours, the local economy spinning. It is a parallel world that forms on the sands of Bahia.
After three collections of generative photography [Street tales #1/#2 and Marijuana march], I needed to innovate in the new project. I wanted to follow the line of documentary photography, but the idea was to generate a video file with random images.
I was already sure of the material used, which would be from the timelapse of Universo Paralello 13. I just hadn't created the code and I didn't have references to base myself on, because I only have basic/intermediate knowledge in coding.
I met in the Brashill group [Brazilian artists collective], he has an innovative work with generative video and has released some projects in Fx(hash). I invited him to a colab using his code base and the clips taken from timelapse.
The new challenge was to put 84 clips in 30 mb, it took many attempts to get to 27.5 mb for all clips + code.
The code is generated in p5.js, which ramdomizes the amount of clips and loops, their order and adds a negative film effect.
Below the last tests before the drop:
Tuesday 07/18/23 at 5pm UTC /6pm CET
Link below to full article about the Festival experience and a full stopmotion/timelapse video:
medium.com/universoparalello13
o underground vive !