Most Popular Stephen X. Arthur Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
Vision Point Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
The landscape in Vision Point seems to dance with an almost dizzying rhythm against an infinitely receding horizon and our relentless forward movement.
Touched Alive: A Masque of Desire and Doom Trailer (2020)
01 June 2020
This video is a mini-documentary or news segment made by The Knowledge Network (KNO) interviewing Stephen Arthur on the making of the animated film Transfigured based on transformations of paintings by Jack Shadbolt.
Hybrid Vigour Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Animates the surreal "biomorphs" created by celebrity zoologist Desmond Morris in his paintings. Morris wrote in The Secret Surrealist: "My greatest desire is to jump through the frame of one of my paintings, like Alice through the looking-glass, and disappear forever into my surreal world.
Stephen Arthur's Computer Animation Series: Compilation #1 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
This compilation of short animated films shows the work that led up to the making of Transfigured. These films and interstitials are studies in making maximal use of Autodesk Animator Pro and morphing software for short 2D animation output to VHS videotape, before embarking on the three-year production of Transfigured, which animated the paintings of Jack Shadbolt, as a high-resolution 35-mm film made in Animator Pro (8-bit color).
Animartian Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Educational film on animation techniques, as told from a Martian telecast by a Martian presenter -- demonstrating ink and paint on cels, stop motion (model, object, plasticine, pixilation), cutouts, and “filmography” (motion graphics).
The Recess Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Portrays a teen identity crisis in the idiom of the modern satiric grotesque, intended to provoke discussion.
Vision Point II Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
This prototype "sketch" demonstrates sequential morphing cycles from realist to abstract, driven by heartbeats to express the artists' drive to grapple with the vast and harsh Western Canadian landscape.
Transfigured Trailer (1998)
30 June 1998
Butterflies, totem poles and satellites. Incisive lines and slashes of colour. Images inspired by West Coast Aboriginal art, by nature and by personal experience.
Splitstream Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
“It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of reference" film, Splitstream, before I went to film school.
