Stop Motion in Sunday Traffic
poetic reading
After Christmas. After the feast. After New Year, the trees are done. Put outside. Left to be taken away. Meanwhile, they gather in a tram stop shelter, shuffled in by the stop-motion technique. Their movement sounds like fire. And why not? It’s just one of the many crops we plant in order to consume. Why not year-end twigs and greens too?
Objective description
In the middle of the frame, an empty bus stop. Gradually, small fir trees appear in the frame and gather in the shelter. The stop-motion technique can respond to the traffic situation on site, always waiting until the frame is completely clear again. Evening falls.
Plausible association
This film assembles many different, yet generally similar, festive trees. Whenever the same is repeated with minimal variation, a tradition is in action: a tradition to bring the outside in, and now, after the festive season, back outside… where the leftovers pose for a final collective picture. It touches on issues of nature use and urban consumtion.
Artistic intention
The work has two effects. One directly as the picture emerges in real life in the Sunday traffic. The second as the complete movie.
