Michel Gagné
2021Prelude to Eden
Michel Gagné
A highly stylized short film which whimsically illustrates the short sliver of time between the "Big Bang" and the present. The exhilarating visuals and powerful score transcend the spoken word, and show us that elemental conflicts in the universe have more to do with our own existence than we would like to admit.
Prelude to Eden
Sensology
Michel Gagné
A short animated film that visualizes in abstract form, an improvised musical session by two leaders of the avant-guarde jazz movement, Paul Plimley (piano) and Barry Guy (bass).The music was recorded on November 9th, 1995, at the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada The film was started in August 2006 and completed in July 2010. Sensology was handdrawn (painted) with a Wacon tablet at first, and later, a Cintiq, using Adobe Photoshop. The drawings and frames were then composited and manipulated in a 2D software called Animo. There is no vector animation at any point in the film. The animation was done stream of consciousness, one frame at a time at a rate of 30 frames per second.
Sensology
