move click move: Handspeak
2001
Sign language, symbols, rubbings and traces left behind.
From the compilation move click move, Animated and Experimental Film Shorts by Deanna Morse. This award-winning interactive experience has 8 sections and includes over 35 films (created between 1970 - 2001), storyboard-to-film comparisons and behind-the-scenes making-of stills revealing technique and process.
contents
Handspeak Motion Menu
2001, 0:31
Transition from Main Menu to Handspeak, including the menu surprise and woodpecker, flicker and squirrel sounds.
Artist in the Schools
1989, 9:47
Documentary about teaching video in an unusual setting.
includes
student video clips
Sandpaintings
1992, 8:19
Two Navajo-inspired figures explore symbols and their meaning. A pioneering film using motion tracking to drive animated characters.
Film by Deanna Morse and Jane DeKoven. Music by Jaron Lanier. The sign language sequences were generated with the data glove at VPL Research Labs; Ann Lasko-Harvill and Young Harvill, performance animation technicians.
includes
storyboard animatic
19 behind-the-scenes photos
Hand
1982, 4:41
A hand dance. Created with notecards and mixed media, in the spirit of Robert Breer.
Film by Deanna Morse, music by Billy Vits. Funded with a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts.
includes
10 behind-the-scenes photos
Help! I’m Stranded…
1981, 4:13
Help! I'm stranded in a Spartanburg motel room with 1) a broken TV, 2) some note-cards and 3) a red crayon. It's a true story. A rubbing film, plays with sound-image relationships, a bit of a guessing game for the surfaces of a hotel room.
includes
7 behind-the-scenes photos
