Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
a.o.k
a.o.k
Christopher Tym
United Kingdom
2022
Video art
Short Film
a.o.k is about the experience of making pop videos and pop music. Using only behind-the-scenes footage and B-roll footage altered with animation, it’s a painting of the emotional experience behind and in front of the camera. content as much as it is about the making of it.
The project revolves around a series of music videos created for original tracks, but the end results are neither seen nor heard; what is visible, however, are the feelings of the collaborators during production.
It’s a journey that tightens with discomfort at first, but opens, softens and releases into something tender and compassionate. The result is unforgiving and unforgiving, but it’s an ode to the loving images we create of ourselves.
general information
edition
6th ECRÃ Festival
venues
16-24/07 - ONLINE
duration in min
15
premiere
International Premiere 6th ECRÃ Festival
indicative classification
12 years / Not recommended for children under twelve years old / Not recommended for children under twelve years old
trailer/teaser/excerpt
content
Nudity / Nudity
tags
art, hybrid documentary, music video
Christopher Tym
Christopher Tym (UK) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam.
His practice includes Film, Animation and Audiovisual Installations. Themes in his work explore the relationship between the camera and the body, unreliable framing and affective editing. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2012 and the Royal College of Art UK in 2017. He is a tutor and teaches Animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
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Production Notes & Addition to Synopsis
Pop-culture is more than entertainment, it shapes our reality; it constructs and deconstructs stereotypes, it catalyzes real-world violence but also collective transcendence. a.o.k began with some urgent questions: Can this framework be broken and put back together on our terms? What do we lose or gain when we play intend? a.o.k took a year and half to edit. It was a fluid and sculptural process that required listening not just to the material but also to the moods, sensations and emotions during the making of the film. The film uses high resolution cameras, low resolution iPhone footage shared on whatsapp and is all interwoven with hand drawn and digital animations to convey the sense of the confusion, energy and melancholy the cast and crew were going through as they performed the roles of the pop stars and producers they admired. The result of a.o.k is the space between
intending and becoming, it is a complex admission of the difficulties we have with the stereotypes of pop culture.