SKRFF_ology

7:04 min |  Corrie Francis Parks & Daniel Nuderscher

Σάββατο 24 & Κυριακή 25/10 |  11:00 π.μ. – 10.00 μ.μ. |  @ Αθήνα στο Σεράφειο του Δήμου Αθηναίων | Είσοδος Ελεύθερη

Ένας τοίχος γκράφιτι μετατρέπεται σε αρχαιολογικό χώρο και ένα γλυπτό σγκράφιτο, καθώς οι «σκρίφολόγοι» ενεργοποιούν τα ίχνη του παρελθόντος μέσα από animation stop-motion. Μπορεί όμως η ιστορία να θυμηθεί ποτέ καθαρά, σε όλη της την πολυπλοκότητα;

Credits:

Corrie Francis Parks – Director and Editor

Daniel Nuderscher – Concept and Carving

Thom Parks – Animation and Technical

Sandro Nicolussi – Sound

Λίγα λόγια από τους καλλιτέχνες:

The SKRFF_ology project began on a chilly winter day in Vienna, Austria, when a group of artists gathered to experiment with spray cans and a utility knife. The public graffiti walls in Vienna were designated as a legal and safe place to spray in 1982 and we wanted to see how many layers of paint were on the wall. Cutting into the wall unleashed an explosion of colorful history and the and inspiration for this animated film.

During the process of making SKRFF, we dubbed ourselves skrffologists (sgraffito + urban archeologist), as we spent days carving through the two centimeters of layered paint on the graffiti wall. The work spawned conversations about our limited view of the past from the perspective of the present, Austria’s history of Nazism and the present-day revival of right-wing extremists there and elsewhere, and whether it is ever possible to avoid repeating past mistakes. We also ate a lot of pizza.

Through stop motion animation, the short film SKRFF compresses decades into seconds, documenting traces of the past next to that past moment’s future, now visible in the present. Though history can’t ever be seen clearly, the artists hope that juxtaposing physical abstractions of past and present can sharpen the view for a clearer future.