Analogues

This dispatch is a collection of notes and half-formed thoughts from the past half-year or so, up to about May. A lot more to say, so a follow-up will arrive relatively quickly (for me) next month.In March, a group of us were in Barcelona for the second in-person workshop of the Baltic Analog Lab film school. It was at Crater Lab, a small independent film studio with traditional photochemical film equipment in the L'Hospitalet area, where we were being taught how to work with a contact printer by

OSCILLATING: Some thoughts on waveforms; linking the sounds caused by melting snow, Sun Ra, and a community garden with an ancient ridge and furrow growing area. The accompanying Substack post contains contextual images and animations.On Hannah Fields was completed in August and released online. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/1003533440It will have an in-person screening next alongside works by other artists including Karel Doing at The Metabolising Analogue at Vasulka Kitchen Brno, Czech

The 2nd studio journal dispatch from artist-animator Lewis Heriz. A series of thoughts linked to animation and the 'art life' (to borrow Lynch's term) sparked by learning a foundational pottery technique.References in the episode:zoetropes, John Edmark's 3D-printed phyllotactic spirals, Marie Paccou's umbrellotropes, multiple animated picturedisc vinyl records throughout the last century, and a nice example of pots with stencilled glazes.Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren's Begone Dull Care, glorious

Until a second ago I was looking at a blank page, thinking about this idea of a New Year, and how 2022 for me could be characterised as being an(other) attempt at a ‘fresh start’. Nothing is a blank page, of course...This is the first dispatch of Analogues, a monthly audiovisual newsletter about animation and being human, from artist Lewis Heriz. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lewisheriz.substack.com