“An Excavation of Us” by Shirley Bruno received a Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2018.
A mix of compositing of 2D images in a 3D space with 3D animation. It is 1802, during the last year of the Haitian Revolution. The film is in black and white and sepia. We see the shadows cast by Napoleon's army on a boat lit by lamps. The army enters a cave, passes through different dark and textured rooms.
About Shirley Bruno
Shirley Bruno (US/HT). Shirley Bruno's films draw upon her heritage, preserving and radicalizing her ancestral traditions and mythology. She creates modern myths that expose the slippery spaces between the physical and metaphysical world, between collective…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.