Chel White is an American stop motion animator, film director, commercial and music video director, animator, actor, screenwriter, and visual effects supervisor on feature films. He is well known for his first person narratives and stylized use of images, White's films explore love, obsession, alienation, memories, and dreams. He uses allegory and frequently dark humor to paint pictures of the human experience. His narrative films are often told from the perspective of the estranged individual; the outsider looking in.
Between the early 1980s and the early 1990s, his passion was based on a non-narrative, music-driven type of filmmaking. He created a series of films which have much the structure of music, particularly their use of repetition and rhythm. He says that he thinks of these earlier works as "song films."
I first came across his work in my film class when we were looking at various animation clips over time – from his portfolio, we viewed two films of his, Choreography for Copy Machine (1991) and A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process in Less Than 60 Seconds (2005). I was really interested and almost fascinated with his clip of Choreography of a Copy Machine. This film exemplifies the interaction between music and image. Also in this film, he was able to take it to the next level of animation by exploring an original animation technique, generating images solely by using the photographic capabilities of a photocopy machine. The Berlin International Film Festival described the film as "a swinging essay about physiognomy in the age of photo-mechanical reproduction."
I received further inspiration from this clip while working on my final project because it gave me the idea of also exploring the relationship between sound and image. I kind of had this idea already set in my mind but really wasn’t sure how to incorporate these two within my project, until now…
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