Ars Electronica Festival · 2012
Rear Window Loop
by Jeff Desom
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2012
Jeff Desom's “Rear Window Loop” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2012, category Computer Animation.
By most accounts, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic _Rear Window_ is as perfectly constructed a film as any the medium has ever produced. It is a “purely cinematic film,” as Hitchcock later described it, whose obvious spatial handicaps both exploited and negated one of the camera’s pre-eminent virtues, its effortless…
About Jeff Desom
Jeff Desom (LU) is a director, animator and visual artist. His work combines live-action, found footage and digital effects. The experimental pianist Hauschka is his most frequent collaborator.
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