Martha Fiennes: Yugen & Nativity - Digital Freesheet
Y U G E N & N A T I V I T Y
MARTHA FIENNES
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Recognising her extraordinary work in the intersection of generative and visual art, we are delighted to present Martha Fiennes’s genre-defying Yugen and Nativity
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MARTHA FIENNES
Martha Fiennes is an award-winning filmmaker, director, writer and artist. Her multilayered work is informed by technological developments and ideas in contemporary art whilst maintaining the artistic expression of a highly gifted filmmaker Her debut artwork Nativity, 2011 has been exhibited at the V&A, the National Gallery, Sotheby’s London and Paris and the Venice Biennale 2017 and The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg June /December 2018
Fiennes has directed two high profile feature films including the sumptuous Russian period piece Onegin, starring Liv Tyler and Ralph Fiennes. Onegin, which won the Tokyo Film Festival, was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Film in 1999 and won her the London Critics Award for Best Newcomer. Her second feature Chromophobia attracted a star studded cast (Penelope Cruz, Damian Lewis, Kristin Scott Thomas) and was applauded for its powerful contemporary style and ‘icy and superb script’ Chromophobia, both written and directed by Martha closed the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. She is an active member of the UK film industry and has served on several BAFTA juries. In 2015 she headed the Film Jury at the annual Film Festival in Tblisi, Georgia.
GENERATIVE ART
With her production team, Fiennes brings to her work substantial experience of filmmaking and visual effects technology to create dynamic works which are able to perpetually self-generate in a continuous, non-predictable, ‘randomised’ visual display. This means that the works are liberated from the need to be played over or “looped”
By combining coding instructions with prerendered imagery, Fiennes enables video and audio layers to be selected at random and in ‘real time’ from a substantial database of original imagery and recorded sound The works are consequently liberated from the traditional, prescribed and linear film format, as narrative control is relinquished to the computer engine which drives the work This means that the storytelling process is discharged from being fully controlled by the artist/director, making each viewing experience spontaneous and unique.
The technology behind the work enables sequences of video and audio layers to be selected autonomously (i.e. at random) by the machine, in real time, from a substantial database of prerendered imagery and recorded sound. The result is a highly immersive, mesmeric experience
Fiennes explains that these hybrid works are neither ‘film' nor 'video art’ but a new - or hybrid form of moving-image media, in which the work itself possesses its own degree of narrative autonomy.
YUGEN
Yugen is an artwork inspired by the Japanese aesthetic concept of profound beauty and mystery, evoking awareness of a universe beyond full comprehension. It explores the contrast between the material world and alternate planes of existence, blending reality with potential and influence
In Yugen, the actor Salma Hayek-Pinault represents Sophia The work investigates the idea of traversing non-material realms by journeying into and out of a material, 3D world where the artist explores the principle of alternatedimensional influence exerted upon the world of matter by multiple aspects of the ‘ unseen ’ Such forces can be of the ‘light’ as well as of the ‘dark’
“TECHNOLOGY AND ART MEET AND MERGE, CREATING IMAGES THAT EVOKE MYSTERY, WONDER, AND AMAZEMENT. ALMOST HYPNOTIC.”
CREDITS
DIRECTOR/ARTIST
Martha Fiennes
FEATURING
SALMA HAYEK PINAULT
PRODUCED BY
TENDERCAPITAL LTD
PRODUCER
PETE MUGGLESTON
PRODUCED BY
SLOIMAGE LTD
POST PRODUCTION
ORKA STUDIOS
MUSIC / SOUND /COMPOSER
MAGNUS FIENNES
POST /ART DIR/SUPERVISOR
MICHAL KONWICKI
POST PRODUCTION CODING
AMPLIFIED ROBOT
POST SUPERVISOR UK
CARL GRINTER
POST SUPERVISOR ORKA / POL
MAREK SUBOCZ
CODING DEVELOPERS / AMPLIFIED ROBOT
MATT LEATHERBARROW
CIARAN CARRICK
VISUAL CONCEPT DESIGNER
JON HENSON
THE SHOOT
LINE PRODUCER
CARLOS DOWNIE DOP
GEORGE TIFFIN
ART DIRECTORS
ANNA SHELDRAKE
TOBY CALDICOTT
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
EMILY FORTUNE
1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
JEROME FRANC
STEPHEN FYLAN
2nd ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
PETER BROMFIELD
JOSEY JACOBS
PHANTOM TECH/FOCUS
ROSS PILMOTT
PHANTOM TECH
CHARLIE PERERA
CLAPPER LOADER
TOM CLIFFE
FOCUS PULLER
JON MITCHEL
HAIR & MAKE UP
DARREN EVANS
HAIR & MAKE UP ASST
AJ JUTTLA
VIDEO PLAYBACK
MICKEY RICHARDS
DIT
PASQUALE TROPEA
JORDAN ALLEN
SOUND RECORDISTS
STEVE HORWOOD
ROGER CUTTING
GAFFERS
LARRY PRINZ
CLIVE SAIT
ELECTRICIANS
TIM SHOTTER
RICHARD POTTER
IONUTS APETROAE
NIALL HIGGINS
LEE HATCHER
RIGGERS
SEAN FENNELLY
ANTHONY WAY
STAND BY PROPS
JONATHAN GREENHAM
JOSEPH GIBSON
WARDROBE STYLIST
ANDY BLAKE
CORSET MAKER
DEBORAH BRAND
SENIOR MACHINIST
PIP ATKINS
COSTUMES FOR MS HAYEK
CO-ORDINATED BY ANDY BLAKE
LACK LOOK
DRESS
JEAN PIERRE BRAGANZA
CORSET
DEBORAH BRAND
BIG SHAG CARDIGAN
MARK FAST
JEWELRY
SLIM BARRETT
JEWELRY
SAM UBHI
CREAM LOOK
DRESS
MARIA GRACHVOGEL
UNDER BUST CORSET
DEBORAH BRAND
JEWELLERY
SAM UBHI
HEADPIECE AND JEWELLERY
SLIM BARRETT
RED LOOK
CORSET /SKIRT
DEBORAH BRAND
GOLD SYMBOLISM ON GOWN SKIRT PAINTED BY
SAIRA JAMIESON
DRESS
JEAN PIERRE BRAGANZA
TUNDRA JEWELRY
BEA NORSKOV
JEWELRY
SLIM BARRETT
JEWELRY
SAM UBHI
BEAST MASKS
ALEX MERRY
TAR & LINEN MASKS
SEAN FAIRMAN
FELT ANIMAL MASKS
GLADYS PAULUS
SWORDS LOANED BY
AMAURY BLOW
RUNNERS
CHARLOTTE GARDINER
BRADLEY MERES
JIM PENFOLD
CHLOE MUGGLESTON
MERCY FIENNES TIFFIN
JOE MULVIHIL
CHARLOTTE MILLER
MAKING OF VIDEO/STILLS
CHARLIE GRALEY
IGUANA HANDLER
JESS MCGUAN
DOG WRANGER
TITAN FIENNES TIFFIN
STAND IN
BELLE LAMOND
FARIDA ZO
PARAMEDICS
KEITH MIDDLETON
MICK LEEMING
CATERING
BLACK ISLAND STUDIOS
POST PRODUCTION
POST PRODUCTION FACILTY
ORKA STUDIOS
ART DIRECTOR & SUPERVISOR
MICHAEL KONWICKI
OFFLINE EDITORS
Kamil Steć
Wojtek Jagiełło
Michał Konwicki
GRADING
Michał Konwicki
MATTE PAINTING
Przemek Kotyński
Sebastian Zakrzewski
Michał Konwicki
SUPERVISOR ON SET
Marek Subocz
COMPOSITING SUPERVISORS
Marek Subocz
Michał Konwicki
Sebastian Zakrzewski
Mateusz Bargiel
Krzysztof Masztakowski
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITING
Krzysztof Grochowina
Tomasz Faraś
MODELLING /3D ANIMATION/RENDERING
Artur Borkowski
Krzysztof Grochowina
Marek Głatki
Tomasz Faraś
Sebastian Zakrzewski
Mateusz Bargiel
Krzysztof Masztakowski
KEYING / ROTOSCOPING
Sylwester Lipiński
Mikołaj Korecki
Mateusz Wiśniewski
Wojtek Kijkowski
COPY ROOM
Kamil Steć
Wojtek Hryniewski
POST PRODUCTION MANAGER
Agnieszka Koterba
Agnieszka Górna
OFF LINE SELECTS EDITORS
COLIN MITCHELL
BEN UNWIN
TRAILER EDITOR
TOBIAS ZALDUA
MUSIC / MAGNUS FIENNES
Female vocal performance by Sussan Deyhim
Male vocal performance by Morgan Sorne
Folk instruments performed by Andrew Cronshaw
Earth Harp on ‘For Heroes’ performed by Will Close Spoken word on ‘Thunder Perfect Mind’ performed by Dolores O’really
All other instruments and processes performed by Magnus Fiennes and David M Celia Sound mix, additional production and composition by David M Celia ‘For Heroes’ co-composed with Will Close
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
Amy Long & Laura Elgar (Long & Elgar)
Myriam Blundell
Beatrice Panerai (for introducing Mr Zani and Tendercapital to Ms Fiennes)
Benedetta Cuzzeri
Salma Hayek Pinault’s excellent team
Evelyn O Neill
Bill Sobel
Bianca Arrivabene and team
David Gonzales
Sara Colombi and team
Craig Westwood
Black Island Studios
Panalux
Paul Mackie at 24-7 Drama
Integro Stonehouse
Nick Adams
Yugen (2018)
Generative, Moving Image
Featuring Salma Hayek Pinault
Nancy Trotter Landy
Music & sound score by Magnus Fiennes
Code by Carl Grinter
ORKA Post Production
Produced by Peter Muggleston
See: www yugen art
Enquiries, exhibition & sales: camilla@fiennes net
Exhibition history
Palazzo Grassi, Venice Film Festival, September 2018
The Serpentine Gallery, October 2018
LACMA, Los Angeles, February 2019
With gratitude to for their support in the creation of Yugen
NATIVITY
Fiennes’ exquisite, perpetually changing take on the classic Nativity scene
Though undeniably influenced by iconic Renaissance paintings, Nativity is inspired by Fiennes’ feeling limited in the moving image world The work is a chance to “challenge the conventions of moving image editing in which images and sequences are ‘fixed’ indefinitely ”
“What fascinated me most were all these Renaissance paintings of the Nativity…And what drew me in were things like the representation of women, the place of the mother figure, all of which have been lost in Christianity. The pull for me was to interpret anew the world of this iconic story by making use of this incredible technology.” – Martha Fiennes in The Guardian
“ENDLESSLY COMPLEX, GENERATIVE, AND CODED IN A MYSTICAL BEAUTY—IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT IN THIS DIGITAL ARTWORK—NATIVITY IS THE ZENITH OF THE AS-OF-YET UNPARALLELED SLOIMAGE TECHNOLOGY.”
"FIENNES’S 'NATIVITY’ GIVES HOLINESS THE HITECH TREATMENT."
