Barry Doupé
2021At the Heart of a Sparrow
Barry Doupé
“An episodic adventure highlighting the riff between mind and body. Through a series of animated narratives, role reversals and associations, images are driven out and stacked one on top another."A best friend is like a four leaf clover, Hard to find and lucky to have. But I'm beginning to wonder if he knows something the rest of us don't."
At the Heart of a Sparrow
A Boy on a Dock Blowing his Nose
Barry Doupé
Tasha Brotherton, Tudder
Barry Doupé's lusty A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination.
A Boy on a Dock Blowing his Nose
Distracted Blueberry
Barry Doupé
Masculine tropes are undone to form a relationship between male sexuality and the human death drive. The body, violence and humour are positioned in the larger context of nothingness and somethingness, bridging a tension between externalized anxieties and the terrors of nature.
Distracted Blueberry
Thalé
Barry Doupé
Barry Doupé’s Thalé (2009) experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements. Doupé’s animations are inspired by the Thale Cress plant, which is commonly used in biological mutation experiments. His rotating electronic floras, which resemble neon lights, sex toys and fireworks, glow in the dark digital void. - Amy Kazymerchyk, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Thalé
The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important
Barry Doupé
The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important explores the power structure within a failing Japanese glass factory. Two parallel story lines involving the investigation of an suspected employee and that of a stolen painting converge to reveal an exposition on gender and desire.
The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important
Life and People
Barry Doupé
Derya Akay, Adrian Bartel
In this series of videos, Life and People restages common life situations to consider different forms of communication, language, and recitation. Completed during a one month Artist Residency at the Western Front, this work marks a shift for Doupé from computer animation to live action video.
Life and People
Ponytail
Barry Doupé
Ponytail follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A series of scenarios held together by an attraction to failure and its spectacle describe the characters’ malfunction – their inability to fulfill personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of their attempts they question their own trajectory. Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that employ elements of melodrama, performative monologue and traditional narrative structure.
Ponytail
