SILENT ANIMATIONS (2020

SILENT ANIMATIONS (2020 - NOW)

DISSONANT LINES (2023)

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https://filmfreeway.com/DISSONANTLINES2023

DISSONANT LINES (2023) is a hypnotic, painterly and poetic animation, concrete poetry in film. It 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. Similar to On Your Marks, Dissonant Lines removes the author;an interesting change as my work is often about identity and my own autobiography.

In Dissonant Lines, 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. A disembodied hand appears in the film turning the pages. The original drawings have a link to cave paintings. The viewers try to build a narrative from the drawings. There is something really primal about the mark making; the marking seems to come from a really internal place. The viewer senses a real essence of trying to get things down and express. The imagery of Dissonant Lines, like On your Marks was made by students at Wimbledon College of Arts, London as part of a workshop Lee delivered. In groups of 8/9, students were invited to draw images conjuring up their ideas around the term 'collaboration'. They only had one pen per group. 'I instructed them to hold the pen together at the same time and move the pen together across the page to make the drawings.The resulting drawings from the activity above are then documented and filmed with the camera moving across the drawn paper. Now digital, the drawings are 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.

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The first two videos were filmed at 'Radical Repetition', London Critical Thought Conference, London Metropolitan University in July 2023 with Nick Eisen and Rachel Robinson reading the poems. The last three videos were filmed with BA Theatre Design students at Wimbledon College of Arts in 2019.

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.

Images below show when the work installed at Pride is an Abstraction curated by Michael Petry, Clifford Chance, London.

June -September 2023

ON YOUR MARKS: TENSION LINES (2020)

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https://filmfreeway.com/ONYOURMARKSTENSIONLNES

'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.