3.5 min
HD Animation with unused soundtrack 2011/ 6 colour screenprint with varnish 2012
Dawn of the Rainbow is the culmination of a residency at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is made from the film leader from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" (one of the first technicolor films). The film starts with the drab real world in black and white and suddenly converts to colour as Dorothy finds herself in the land of Oz. This film is an attempt to celebrate and look back at that moment in cinematic history. It is also apt today at another juncture in cinematic technology as celluloid becomes obsolete to the pixel. It is animated to a rejected movie soundtrack by Wayne Urquhart, one of the first I have worked on with sound. It was first screened at Tyneside Cinema in December 2011 and is now showing in international film festivals.
There is also a Dawn of the Rainbow 6 colour screenprint made later in 2012 inspired by this footage available here.
Dawn of the Rainbow has screened/exhibited in:
Juice Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Nov 2011
Couleur, Grey Area, Paris June 2012
There’s No Place Like Home, solo project as part of Deptford X, London Aug 2012
Euroshorts, Warsaw, Poland Nov 2012
Les Sommets Du Cinema D’Animation, Montreal & Quebec City, Canada Nov 2012
Alternative Film/Video, Serbia Dec 2012
"British Shorts" 6th Lichtspielklub Kurzfilmfestival, Berlin, Germany Jan 2013
Animated Exeter, UK Feb 2013
Chinese Open, Q Park, London UK - Feb 2013
Animac, Lleda, Spain Feb-Mar 2013
International Motion Festival Cyprus Mar 2013
Flatpack festival, Birmingham, UK Mar 2013
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy April 2013
WRO 15th Media Art Biennale, Wro Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland - May 2013
MashRome Film Fest, Rome, Italy May 2013
Experimental Film Festival Portland, US May 2013
Strawberry Shorts, Cambridge, UK May 2013
Leiden Short Film Festival; Leiden, Netherlands June 2013
Animation Block Party, Brooklyn; US July 2013
Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria Aug 2013
C the Film, Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Aug 2013
Carousel Aspex Portsmouth, UK - Sept-Oct 2013
Blinc Digital Arts Festival, Outcasting Cinema Truck, Conwy, Wales Sept 2013
A Welsh Pavillion, Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London UK Sept 2013
The Art of Animation, Animae Caribe, National Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Nov 2013
Adventures in the Other Screen Trade, Spike Island, Bristol, UK Feb/May 2014 Inherent Process, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK 2017 Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony! APT Gallery, Deptford Jan-Feb 2019 Turn On The Light, Media Library, WRO Arts Center, Wroclaw Feb-Mar 2019
