Selections of Ezra Wube's animation, each uniquely referencing time, urban experience and cross-cultural mobility.
Stop action animation on a single canvas, exploring the idea of pluralism through autobiography.
This title is also availble on Ezra Wube Videoworks: Volume 1
Stop action animation, paint on a single canvas.
To make this animation, I painted scenes of my daily commute from memory and photographed them. Each frame was painted on top of the previous one, each scene triggering the following scene. I collected sounds from the places and environments I painted and edited them together with the captured frames to realize the piece.
— Ezra Wube
This title is also availble on Ezra Wube Videoworks: Volume 1
Stop action animation, ink on glass.
This animation is performed and documented directly from life to embrace the present. In this animation, I am using the window view from my studio, where an active scene of construction workers creates the backdrop. By putting acetate on the glass of the window I am able to keep full transparency. I am using a brush dipped in temporary Sumi ink to construct each scene. Each painting is photographed with a digital camera, and then washed away by water poured on the slippery acetate. As each scene is washed away, the unconscious consumption of time is exposed. In this process the confinement to a singular authenticity is forever gone, even though it has been documented. The documentation serves as an indexical vehicle which captures the past. The purpose of documentation is not to preserve, but to serve as a bridge, connecting the past with the present, the internal with the external.
—Ezra Wube
This title is also availble on Ezra Wube Videoworks: Volume 1
In this piece I am exploring the idea of belonging by tracing the outline of the shifting skyline. Through imagination, learning, and a continuous adjustment, I strive to relate the communal with personal identity.
— Ezra Wube
This title is also availble on Ezra Wube Videoworks: Volume 1
