At the Heart of a Sparrow Trailer
Barry Doupé (b. 1982 Victoria, BC) is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with computer animation. His films use imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. He often creates settings within which a characters' self-expression or action is challenged and thwarted, resulting in comic, violent and poetic spectacles.
Total trailers found: 10
01 January 2014
In this series of videos, Life and People restages common life situations to consider different forms of communication, language, and recitation.
11 August 2012
Barry Doupé’s Thalé (2009) experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements.
01 January 2004
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.
03 November 2018
A ball bounces all over town, through all different kinds of people.
01 January 2012
The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important explores the power structure within a failing Japanese glass factory.
13 September 2022
The red house dissolves and transforms into all kinds of other things. The house re-assembles, but bigger and wider than before.
01 January 2012
The OIAF’s contribution to Nuit Blanche Ottawa is Hello Amiga by the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS).
01 January 2008
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.
24 October 2019
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.
01 January 2006
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.
