Award-winning Works

Digital Art [Non Interactive Art] Division

Tall Small Stories
© Lars Magnus Holmgren 18/12/1998
Excellence Prize

TALL SMALL STORIES

CG Moving Picture

Artist : Lars Magnus Holmgren

(Australia)

Profile

Lars Magnus Holmgren

Lars Magnus Holmgren Lars migrated to Australia with his family in 1974. He was educated in Sydney, NSW whereby he gained his secondary higher school certificate qualification and later Art Certificate in the Honours Grade and finally Bachelor of The Arts Degree with Distinctions. Lars is a professional artist with expertise in the Computer Graphics industry as Conceptual Designer, 3D animator and Director. He has 9 years of experience in film and Commerials. The TV series Tall Small Stories which he directed and animated has won him many awards with acceptance into 18 festivals and articles in 2 well respected industry journals. Lars has recently relocated in London, where he currently works as director and Senior CG animator. Freedom is the guiding call for Lars, and he hopes to reach out to the global market with creatively 'free' challenging and wildly individual innovative future works. Lars has been actively involved in A Multimedia-performance-art group called Scratch My Nose. SMN have gained cult audience in Australia for their situationalist performances. They have also won awards for their short(super8 animated films) and released a CD of their sound work entitled SCREW. Lars also has an active interest in various martial art and esroteric/spiritual systems of study. In this 'go go go' age it is wise to be resourceful, and infinite 'quality' recources can be reached 'within'. Knowledge of the physical, mental and spiritual 'create' harmony, peace and the inspiration to 'create'.

Comment

series TALL SMALL STORIES (three 30 second spots for MTV) 1. BLOWFLY HEAVEN; Heironomous Bosch mets the Muppets on acid in a ubiquely Australian 'Bushmans' backyard setting. 2. FOOD FOR THOUGHT; An outer space romance with a Shakespearean twist... of lime, for that FrankenFlavour of irony. 3. FRANKENSKIPPY; Frankensteins monster is resurrected on the body of a kangaroo road kill (skippy). He jumps up on his stage(grave) and like a broken boned mime he does his death dance for you. He selflessly surrenders his compassionate heart for you. He smashes through our egoic barriers with his chainsaw of discriminative awarenes. He lovingly challenges complacency wherever he sees it. The series aims to immediately capture the attention of the Australian TV target audience; age fourteen to thirty four. the computer generated freak characters, bizarre landscapes, attention to detail and uniquely Australian twist, keep 'em bug eyed and waiting for more. The campaign is visually 'punchy' enough to reach out to the international audience. The series deals with the play of 'chaos' and its dance in duality, the dance of opposites, the ugly giving way to the beautiful(the 'flower' as newlife).Chaos shatters our preconceptions and conformist patterns and ultimately opens the vacuum for our surrender to raise our awareness beyond the conflict of 'duality' into thefreeflowing harmony of the greater 'will'. Thus balanced is restored. FrankenBlessings to all ! special thanks to James Greville, Jo Bossi, dennis Carnahan, Linda Lum, James Hughes, Catherine Nelson, Chris Leaver, Andrew Lyons, Conja, MTV Australia and Frankenstein and Skippy for putting up with the delicate surgery.

Reason for Award

This work won plaudits for the way it takes the sheer pleasure of moving pictures and lets it run wild -- almost surrealistically so -- in a celebration of "the joy of creation." In an alternative dimension, bizarre life-forms wink into and out of existence. This playful, anything but everyday romp is a true masterpiece.