Private Project

The Sound of Sinking Ships

Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order- explored through movement, music, video and film. The Sound of Sinking Ships is a dance improvisation documented in film, video, and animation. This video highlights movement itself as the figure flows through mediums, styles and levels of obfuscation and abstraction. including video, degraded 16mm and 8mm film and hand drawn animation.

Digital video, 16mm film+ 8mm film

  • Oona Taper
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 10, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    50 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 16mm, 8mm
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Interface Video Festival
    Zagreb
    Croatia
  • Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
  • GRRL HAUS // Let's have a party!
    Boston
    United States
  • Context.film
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
Director Biography - Oona Taper

Oona Taper is a Chicago-based visual artist and experimental animator. Her style captures both whimsical and chaotic energy, utilizing distorted yet recognizable figures, a strong use of sound, and a mixed media approach to address themes of intimacy, technology, physical space, and subjective experiences. Her video work uses loops as a key formal element and highlights the potential materiality of moving image.

Taper's short films have been screened at national and international film festivals including; The IVY Film Festival in Providence RI, OUTsider Fest in Austin, Texas, and Locomoción, an Experimental Animation Festival in Mexico City. Her video installations and works on paper have been showcased in galleries in Boston, Philadelphia, and Rome. She is part of the video art collective Krissy Talking Pictures, which curates video and performance events in Philadelphia.

https://www.instagram.com/oonataper/

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