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The Variations

Completed in 2021, The Variations is a suite of 4 standalone films, reconfiguring home life as a combination newsletter, ad campaign, personal cinema, and experimental workbook.

Taking a playfully structuralist approach (think: Hollis Frampton at his most benign), each video reworks recurrent motifs, imagery, and narrative tropes, parlaying them into an extended, ever-evolving open ended cine-anagram.

They incorporate stop-motion, time lapse, live action, mixed media animation, analogue and digital media, and filmmaking glee.

# Title Artists Run Time Year Country
1 Advertisements for myself Paul Tarragó 00:08:11 2021 United Kingdom
2 Glad Hand/Sad Hand Paul Tarragó 00:07:07 2021 United Kingdom
3 The Orrery Paul Tarragó 00:06:45 2021 United Kingdom
4 Niebla Paul Tarragó 00:07:20 2021 United Kingdom

Advertisements for myself

Paul Tarragó
2021 | 00:08:11 | United Kingdom | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

A promotional vehicle with lane-changing tendencies, but both hands kept on the wheel at all times.

First video in The Variations cycle.

Glad Hand/Sad Hand

Paul Tarragó
2021 | 00:07:07 | United Kingdom | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

A newsletter that turned into a film about hands (fast forwarding through slow times).

Second video in The Variations cycle.

The Orrery

Paul Tarragó
2021 | 00:06:45 | United Kingdom | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

The expansive cycles of time vs. the ever smaller circles of life under lockdown. Includes: a journey to the river, some rat facts, more adverts, anagrams, and a noticeable build up of ideas.

Third video in The Variations cycle.

Niebla

Paul Tarragó
2021 | 00:07:20 | United Kingdom | English | B&W and Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

This episode includes: two more adverts, considerations of the future, a multiple projection spectacular in miniature, a riverine jaunt, much fog, and an ending x 2.

This is the fourth and final episode in The Variations cycle.