Pleasant Places

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2015

Series of videos depicting late-spring landscapes in Provence.

The poetic behavior of trees and shrubs moved by strong mistral winds serve as a dataset to generate new computational paintings. Speculating on the traditions of landscape painting, the work explores a hybrid substance between the pictorial and the algorithmic.

Credits

Artwork by Quayola

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Produced by Quayola Studio

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External Collaborators

Software Programming: Nikolai Matviev

Cinematography: James Medcraft

Sound Design: Simone Lalli

Producer: Nicolas Wierinck

Producer Shoot: Luigi Filotico

Production Assistants: Caterina Rossato, Sebastiano Barbieri

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Commissioned by GLOW

with support from BKKC and the Foundation Van Gogh Brabant, in the context of the 2015 Van Gogh Year

Thanks to Commission du Film Luberon-Vaucluse / Joan Azorin