Ars Electronica Festival · 2000
Musca domestica
by Denis Bivour
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2000
Denis Bivour's “Musca domestica” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2000, category Computer Animation.
The film tells the old story of David against Goliath. Yet the end is neither black nor white, but somewhere in between.The main characters are an ordinary housefly (Musca domestica) and a person at a kitchen table.The person kills the fly and then eats the bread, in which the fly has just laid its eggs.
About Denis Bivour
Denis Bivour (DE), born 1976, spent six months in South America in 1996. Studied fine arts from 1997 – 1999 at the Art College of Berlin (Prof. W. Stöhrer). Has been studying digital media since 1998 at the Art College of Berlin (Prof. J. Sauter).
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