PHILIPPE BAYLAUCQ PHILIP BEESLEY
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PHILIPPE BAYLAUCQ PHILIP BEESLEY
SYLVA A ground breaking film in 3D PHILIPPE BAYLAUCQ & PHILIP BEESLEY CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR ORA BY PHILIPPE BAYLAUCQ “cinematic innovation of the highest order” Dave Robson, SOUND ON SIGHT “ORA has a mesmerizing effect, as sensual and dignified as the modern dance it shows” Guy Dixon, GLOBE AND MAIL “Visually breathtaking” Richard Burnett, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR HYLOZOIC GROUND “extraordinarily beautiful and reverent” Gary Michael Dault, CANADIAN ARCHITECT “floated like a waking dream…suspended in an opalescent membrane” Robert Everett–Green, GLOBE AND MAIL “symphony of pure sensation” Ben Lensink, SCHREEF DE TWENTSCHE COURANT TUBANTIA SYLVA A ground breaking film in 3D PHILIPPE BAYLAUCQ & PHILIP BEESLEY © 2011 National Film Board of Canada Philippe Baylaucq’s ground breaking film ORA created a sensation at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival with its unprecedented innovations in 3D thermal imaging. Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground has captured worldwide press for its immersive visions of a delicate, forestlike future architecture that can move, and even think and feel. SYLVA will use next generation 3D cinematography to reveal the complex collaborative process behind Beesley’s installations and to present a stunning new experience of this visionary work. Over 1 million people have experienced Hylozoic Ground in person. Projects since 2007 include major installations in Venice, Madrid, Linz, Enschede, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Mexico City, Copenhagen, Moscow, Reims, and Salt Lake City. Upcoming projects are slated for Madrid, Wellington, Sydney, Santiago de Compostela, Liverpool and Trondheim. The work has been featured in WIRED and MARK magazine and numerous journals including the The Wall Street Journal, as well as the covers of LEONARDO and ARTIFICIAL LIFE, and. The work was also showcased on the CBC National News, Discovery Planet and Vernissage TV. Hylozoic Veil The Leonardo, Salt Lake City US 2011 Hylozoic Ground Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2010 3D cinema a new paradigm Architect and artist Philip Beesley and filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq are pursuing new possibilities for a stereoscopic 3D film depicting SYLVA, a new work from the acclaimed Hylozoic Series of immersive environmental structures. The use of space, depth, movement, textures, form and light make these « living » sculptures the ideal subject matter for a 3D film experience. The work of Philip Beesley provides an abundance of themes and an original visual universe that stereoscopy is well equipped to convey and celebrate. It is the goal of this project to use 3D technology and vocabulary to bring the architectural, aesthetic and kinetic concerns of Beesley’s work to another level. What can be done with the stereoscopic tools to see and experience SYLVA in a new light? What unimagined new dimensions will the language of film and particularly stereoscopic filming reveal? Ora Directed by / Réalisé par Philippe Baylaucq Produced by / Produit par René Chénier © 2011 National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada. Advances in digital imaging have made 3D stereoscopic cinematography the immersive film experience of our generation. Innovative ways of perceiving space offer possibilities for new emotional connections. The recent successes of Wim Wenders’ Pina, portraying the famous German choreographer Pina Baush, and Baylaucq’s own ground breaking thermographic infrared 3D film Ora have opened the way to the inventive and inspired use of stereoscopy to convey the richness of artistic subjects on the big screen - with depth. Building on the international reputation of Hylozoic Ground, SYLVA in 3D will add a new perspective to the growing momentum surrounding the series. For SYLVA, cameras will be placed side-by-side and synchronized, like human eyes, enabling us to see in three dimensions. As a result, the cameras allow us to perceive the surprising reality of the immersive and responsive environments in stereoscopy. a 3 tiered project The Hylozoic Series is ambitious, and so is the film approach. We envision a three tiered project uniting diverse but complimentary perspectives on the subject: 1 Short stereoscopic art film Focused on one or more of Beesley’s installations and designed to respond to the camera thus affording a revealing, uniquely cinematographic perspective on Beesley’s work. This piece will be developed to share immersive experiences in spaces where full sculptural incarnations are not physically possible. 2 Documentary film (3D & 2D, 52 minutes) Developed for international HD festival and television markets. The film would depict the human face of the Hylozoic Series, a story of collective creativity, visionary stewardship, personal poetics, and intellectual inquiry that moves from archaeological sites in Rome to the wilderness of Lake Superior to a thriving design studio in Toronto’s West end. All of this will be brought to life in full 3D with a unabashed intention to use the medium in inventive ways - always in keeping with the spirit of Beesley’s celebrated vision. 3 Interactive website & mobile app. Online audiences would be invited to discover new facets of SYLVA, see segments of the films and access relevant background information. Furthermore, by having individual users provide information about the actual space they are occupying, the site could set up feedback loops that translate this information into relevant data and insight. Interactive mobile technologies could be used in two modes: as tools for measuring aspects of the space that users are in and as tools for measuring, within that space, its impact on the user’s bodies. Ideas about responsive architecture in nascent and simple forms could be hinted at by exploring this type of web interactivity. Hylozoic Soil Festival de Mexico, 2010 Artist: Philip Beesley Architect and sculptor Philip Beesley is demonstrating how buildings in the future might move, and even feel and think. In a series of experimental installations that have attracted global attention, Beesley is leading a group of experts from science and art in creating a uniquely Canadian experimental architecture. These projects are a hybrid of sculpture, engineering, experimental chemistry and architecture. Projects since 2007 include installations in Madrid, Moscow, Linz, Enschede, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Mexico City, Copenhagen and in 2010, PBAI was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale for Architecture. Recent installations include a permanent exhibit at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City, Utah and Sargasso for Toronto’s 2011 Luminato Festival. Upcoming 2012 exhibits are scheduled for Edmonton, Madrid, Wellington, and Sydney. The work has been featured in WIRED and MARK magazine and on the covers of LEONARDO and ARTIFICIAL LIFE. Distinctions include FEIDAD, VIDA 11.0, ACADIA Digital Practice, RAIC Allied Arts Medal, and Prix de Rome (Canada). Filmmaker: Philippe Baylaucq Filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1958, studied in London, and first came to prominence during the 1980s for his work in videography and in cinema. His films are characterized by frequent experimentation with form, an affinity for technological innovation and an interest in various artistic disciplines including architecture (Barcelone, 1985; Phyllis Lambert, une biographie, 1994), painting (Mystère B., 1997; Les couleurs du sang, 2000) and dance (Les choses dernières, 1994; Lodela, 1996; ORA, 2011). His films have won numerous awards at Montreal’s International Festival of Films on Art, as well as at many international film festivals. The multi-talented Baylaucq has also directed a children’s musical tale starring puppets (Hugo et le dragon, 2001), a science film (La dynamique du cerveau, 2008) and A Dream for Kabul (2008) – a moving documentary about a man who travels to Kabul to assist ordinary people, after losing his own son in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Baylaucq was also the director in charge of Happiness Bound (2007), an homage to Quebec poetry. © 2011 National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada. Hylozoic Ground Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2010 hylozoic ground Hylozoic Ground is an immersive interactive environment that is part of the Hylozoic Series of works. The project’s title refers to ‘hylozoism’, the ancient belief that all matter has life. For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition Hylozoic Ground transformed the Canada Pavilion with an immersive, interactive environment made from tens of thousands of lightweight digitallyfabricated components fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. The glass-like fragility of this artificial forest was built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic meshwork links, covered with a network of interactive mechanical fronds, filters and whiskers. These environments are similar to a coral reef, following cycles of opening, clamping, filtering and digesting. Arrays of touch sensors create waves of diffuse breathing motion, luring visitors into the shimmering depths of a forest of light. Hylozoic Ground offers a vision for a new generation of responsive architecture. The Hylozoic Ground environment can be described as a suspended geotextile that gradually accumulates hybrid soil from ingredients drawn from its surroundings. Akin to the functions of a living system, embedded machine intelligence allows human interaction to trigger breathing, caressing, and swallowing motions, as well as hybrid metabolic exchanges. These empathic motions ripple out from hives of kinetic valves and pores in peristaltic waves, creating a diffuse pumping that pulls air, moisture and stray organic matter through the filtering Hylozoic membranes. ‘Living’ chemical exchanges are conceived as the first stages of self-renewing functions that might take root within this architecture. Hylozoic Soil Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2007 Hylozoic Ground Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2010 “ This skein casts itself all over and around you as you move through the darkened Pavilion, catching you in infinite geometries that seem to change as you move through the lacunae in the web. Then the whole structure, or just a small part, will start to move, its tiny muscles contracting or relaxing…If architecture aspires at times to be a framing structure that comes between ourselves as human bodies incarnate and a wider universe, providing a way of establishing our place in that larger world, then it would seem appropriate that architects today begin to develop structures that articulate what we currently understand that universe to be. Hylozoic Ground is, beyond an exquisite movement of modern Rococo, an attempt to construct such a veil of emplacement.” Aaron Betsky, Director Cincinnati Art Museum, Director 11th Venice International Architecture Biennale, “Beyond Buildings: As it Lives and Breathes”, Architect magazine, October 2011 “…the glass-like fragility of this artificial forest, built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic tiles, is visually breathtaking. Its frond extremities arch uncannily towards those who venture into its midst, reaching out to stroke and be stroked like the feather or fur or hair of some mysterious animal… …Beesley’s Hylozoic Soil stands as a magically moving contemporary symbol of our aptitude for empathy and the creative projection of living systems.” Fundacion Telefonica Jury, 1st prize, VIDA 11.0 Hylozoic Ground Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2010 Ora Directed by / Réalisé par Philippe Baylaucq Produced by / Produit par René Chénier © 2011 National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada. ORA A cell divides itself. From this first mass of light six luminous bodies soon emerge. They evolve in a world they are discovering – explorers lit by their internal light, leaving behind traces of the fire that animates them. ORA is a stunning meeting of the artistic worlds of choreographer José Navas and filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq. It is the first film to use 3D thermal imaging, producing visuals unlike anything ever seen before: the luminous variations of body heat seen on skin, bodies emitting a multitude of colours, a space filled with movement that transforms itself. ORA is dance transformed by cinema – a completely unique film experience. Director Philippe Baylaucq brings us a spectacular cinematic adventure, in the great tradition of innovative films produced by the National Film Board of Canada. © 2011 National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada. “ Ora is both a game changer and a trip into unknown territory. In the first film to use 3D thermal imaging, luminous bodies emerge from a single dividing cell... © 2011 National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada. ...What ensues is akin to the first human steps: the discovery of the body and its relation to space. Choreographer José Navas and filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq create a cinematic sensation.” Dance on Camera Festival Lincoln Center, New York. © 2011 National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada. “ Technically, this is the most futuristic, gamechanging film at TIFF 2011. Baylaucq, assembling a troupe of six muscular and elegant modern dancers, photographed them in darkness with 3D thermal imaging cameras. The cameras sense heat, not light, and the evolving patterns we see in each dancer’s body are exhilarating, as well as scientifically interesting esoteric art and technology merge into mainstream entertainment. Like the famous Muybridge experiments with the earliest approximations of a motion picture camera (he showed a horse and a man in locomotion) ORA is a thrilling leap forward.” Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com Philip Beesley Architect Inc. 213 Sterling Road, Suite 200 Toronto ON Canada M6R 2B2 . 416.766.8284 . [email protected]
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