Simon Goulet's 9 minute long film OIO captures paint as it falls, to create a living moving painting. The film is a sublime orgy of colour and movement, and leaves an almost hallucinogenic after taste. Over 11 years, 540 litres of paint, 56 colours, 7000 metres of film, 33000 digitized images, 360 frames per second, a catapult, lots of friends, passion and patience results in new art form coined ‘cinepainting’. video preview
Whilst to the untrained eye the film may resemble a diy disaster in the making, there is actually a highly technical method to the paint throwing. First, paint is filmed as it passes, in flight, through a chosen frame of space, one jet of paint at a time. Then, in post-production, 'shots' can be combined in order to compose a 'painting', which fills the frame for a given period of time.
This post-production editing took Simon Goulet 4 years to complete, and resulted in a critically acclaimed work totting up 14 awards to date. via sensoryimpact
