Hand-Powered Cinema: International Flipbook Festival

Photos

Flipbooks: Potential Energy (photo by jordan)

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uploaded by Jordan Yerman

Videos

Interview with Candice Hopkins, Curator Extraordinaire

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sourced by Jordan Yerman

If you're in British Columbia's lower mainland and you want to see some handmade moving pictures, you're in luck. Vancouver is the final stop of the International Flipbook Festival, to which around one hundred artists have contributed their thumb-activated works. In this small, well-lit room the visitor will find animation, documentary, strip-tease, surrealism, and broccoli-chopping, along with everything in between.

I was able to interview Candice Hopkins, the curator of the exhibition; just click the video to your right to check out this unique exhibition.

International Flipbook Festival
Western Front Exhibitions
303 East Broadway
+1.604.876.9343
www.front.bc.ca

(This interview and detail footage was shot using the video function of a 6MP point-an'-shoot digital camera: you can try this at home! The mic is dreadful, though, making both Ms. Hopkins and I sound like Daffy Duck. I assure you that, in real life, my diction is brilliant.)