HAPPY HOURS / SAD MINUTES
NUIT BLANCHE EVE 2022
“Happy Hour/Sad Minutes” is an hour-long program of moving image works from the Digital and Integrated Practice Program (DIP) in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Saskatchewan. The short videos and animations explore representations of self, psychological states, (dis)ability, familial relationships, ecological concerns, and other musings on the Universe. The works emanate the full spectrum of emotion from joyful bliss to sorrowful melancholy. They ask for deep reflection, an embracing of the absurd, and the suspension of disbelief as magic happens and meaning is unearthed in the everyday.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Randy Huang
“Intro video”, digital video, 1:45min, 2021
“Physiological Limitations”, found footage film, 1:50min, 2021
Jesse Fulcher Gagnon
“Muffin man”, digital video + animation, 1:15min, 2020
“Work.”, 3D animation, 1:00min, 2021
“Sleep Paralysis”, digital video + animation, 00:50min, 2020
Emmanuella E. Aliu
“untitled”, found audio film, 2:03min, 2020
“Weird Dreams”, digital animation, 0:33min, 2021
Daniel Bissell
“Deceptive Duck”, 3D animation, 0:40min, 2022
“Busking through Space”, digital video, 1:24min, 2021
“Spider Rig”, 3D animation, 0:39min, 2022
Leif Shantz
“Percussion Mashup”, digital video and found footage, 0:49min, 2020
“It’s a Drag”, digital video, 1:59min, 2020
Kim Kargut
"Sepulchre", stop motion animation, 0:57min, 2021
"Musings of the Universe", digital animation, 1:49min, 2022
“Untitled”, 2.5D animation parallax, 0:20min, 2022
Aurora Wolfe-MacNeill
"TILL", digital video, 1:51min, 2021
Kelly Neuda
"Decay", digital animation, 1:06min, 2022
"Luwalhati", 2.5D animation parallax, 0:28min, 2022
Annie Bérubé
"Dispersed", digital video, 1:10min, 2018
Louisa Ferguson
“Chimera”, digital video, 1:26min, 2020
Athena Ni
“Head in the Clouds”, 2.5D animation parallax, 0:15min, 2022
“Lunar Serenity”, digital animation, 1:00min, 2022
K. A. Hicks
“wait for title”, found footage film, 1:30min, 2020
“Pretty Ugly”, digital video, 1:58min, 2020
Narges Porsandekhial
“I don’t know what I’m doing”, digital video, 1:47min, 2021
Leanne Read
“Broken”, 3D animation, 0:46min, 2021
“the bridge”, digital video, 1:38min, 2021
“Welcome to Computer Science”, found footage film, 1:00min, 2021
Gabby Da Silva
" in my head.", digital animation, 1:00min, 2022
“Escape”, digital video, digital video, 1:40min, 2020
Eva Francis Work
“Body Parallax”, 2.5D animation parallax, 0:15sec, 2022
“Some Days you’re the Clown”, digital animation, 2022
Alleah Bowring
“Social Distancing”, 2:45min, 2022
Renata Ćosić
"LUNGS", digital video, 1:51min, 2021
Qihang Liang
"lost in the metaverse", 3D animation and digital video, 2:15min, 2022
Sahar Soheili Sadigh
“Insomnia”, digital animation, 1:33min, 2022
“Self Talk”, digital animation, 1:33min, 2022
Ming Zhang
“'Chinese Zodiac-Tiger in 2022”, digital animation, 1:24min, 2022
Scot Yellowlees
“Untitled”, 3D animation, 0:25min, 2021