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Menopause Song is a four minute animated video about the
positive aspects of reaching menopause. A bad day of cramps inspired
me to write the song which was performed and recorded on Mayne Island
with a group of friends. I restricted myself to using 48 pre-existing
photographes of the singers and images from gardening catalogues
which came in the mail. The pictures were digitized and then manipulated
in the computer environment. This was my first (and only, so far)
attempt to use the computer to animate with. I had a lot of fun
exploring the possibilities.
We recorded the song at the home and studio of Clarence Deis who
was using a state of the art recording set up powered by a car battery.
There wasn't enough juice to run a light at the same time so we
gathered around the single microphone and sang by candle light as
the sun set.
Festivals
2000
- Anima Mundi International Animation Festival,
Brazil
1998- Ottawa International Animation Festival,ON
1997- Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax,NS
- 8th
Annual St.John's International Women's Film and Video Festival, NL<
- Philadelphia
Festival of World Cinema, Pennsylvania.
- Montreal
International Festival of Cinema and New Media,PQ
- herland:
a feminist film and video celebration,
Calgary, AB
1996
- Vancouver International Film Festival,
Vancouver, BC
- 23rd
Northwest Film & Video Festival,
Portland, Or,
Best of Fest Audience Award.
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