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Video art / 10 motion studies

Put two films in the same frame.

A dancer appears between subway pillars. A microscope slide swims across a print. Watch six seconds of each, then take the first film apart and make it yourself.

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A dancer turns in a subway tunnel. The bright folds of her dress float over the rails, and the train keeps moving through the dark stage.
01 / Ghost Train · Screen + Duotone

01 / Ghost Train

Make a double exposure.

Both clips play from the start. Screen lets the light folds of the dress through and leaves the rails visible in the shadows. Here are the two sources and the finished frame at 2.5 seconds.

Black-and-white columns and the train ahead.
1 · Subway
Annabelle’s tinted gown against a dark stage.
2 · Dancer
The dancer and the subway at the same instant, with Duotone and Screen applied.
3 · Composite
Download subway · MP4Download dancer · MP4
  1. Open the free browser demo with Color selected. In Layers, remove the starter Duotone under Document. Choose Add → Video and pick the subway clip. The first Video replaces the sample photo.
  2. Set the canvas to 768 × 576 using Resize canvas to video if needed. With the subway selected, add Color → Duotone to its own FX stack. Set Shadows to #101348 and Highlights to #20D9DE. Leave Tonal balance at 0.50 and Transition at 0.80. Keep FX motion off for these colors.
  3. Choose Add → Video again and pick the dancer. Place her above the subway, at the same size and position. Set her layer blend to Screen and opacity to 100%. The subway stays at Normal and 100%.
  4. Leave both start offsets at zero, both trims at 0–6 seconds and playback speed at 1×. Choose Animate, set the timeline duration to six seconds and press Play. Replace the top clip to see what else can move through the tunnel.
Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

02–10 / The screening room

Nine more ways to move an image.

Each film runs for six seconds without sound. Play one to see what its layers contribute. The last two use licensed footage routed through a virtual camera into Artfkt’s Webcam layer.

A hand grinds an inkstick over a bed of moving crystals. Multiply keeps the inkstone dark and lets shards of color move across the tabletop.

02 / Multiply + Duotone

Wet Ink

A hand grinds an inkstick over a bed of moving crystals. Multiply keeps the inkstone dark and lets shards of color move across the tabletop.

Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

Two rides down the same subway line run in opposite directions. Diagonal tears cut across the pillars as one track slides past the other.

04 / Torn Strips + Multiply

Torn City

Two rides down the same subway line run in opposite directions. Diagonal tears cut across the pillars as one track slides past the other.

Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt. One excerpt plays in reverse.

An archive dancer sweeps her skirt across the stage. Frame Echo carries displaced pieces of earlier frames into the next turn.

05 / Frame Echo

Afterimage

An archive dancer sweeps her skirt across the stage. Frame Echo carries displaced pieces of earlier frames into the next turn.

See the same frame without FXThe dancer’s sleeve at 2.5 seconds before Frame Echo.
Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

A rotifer pivots under a microscope. Two ink screens pick out its body against pale paper, as if the subject could swim across a printed page.

07 / Risograph + Duotone

Living Print

A rotifer pivots under a microscope. Two ink screens pick out its body against pale paper, as if the subject could swim across a printed page.

Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

Highlights from a crystalline landscape stretch into horizontal bars. Their lengths change as new facets pass through the brightness range.

08 / Pixel Sort

Electric Score

Highlights from a crystalline landscape stretch into horizontal bars. Their lengths change as new facets pass through the brightness range.

Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

A moving hand presses an inkstick against stone. A Webcam layer prints it in two inks over a second video of colored crystals.

09 / Webcam + Risograph

Live Ink

A moving hand presses an inkstick against stone. A Webcam layer prints it in two inks over a second video of colored crystals.

Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

A cool-blue dancer holds one pose while her warm-colored double keeps turning. One camera supplied both layers.

10 / Webcam + captured Image

Hold That Gesture

A cool-blue dancer holds one pose while her warm-colored double keeps turning. One camera supplied both layers.

Footage credits

Silent excerpts, cropped and treated in Artfkt.

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