{"id":14428,"date":"2017-07-28T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14428"},"modified":"2017-07-29T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T02:33:35","slug":"victoria-artist-eric-gaucher-pushes-experimental-filmmaking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/07\/28\/victoria-artist-eric-gaucher-pushes-experimental-filmmaking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria artist Eric Gaucher pushes experimental filmmaking forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Gaucher\u2019s work lies in the abstract place where different forms of art\u2014music, poetry, painting, and filmmaking\u2014intersect. The local artist made the film Steve and Dan Shoot Each Other <\/em>as a result of the many different creative endeavours he has embarked on over the last 20 years, endeavours that include being in bands, making documentaries, and more recently, creating experimental films.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began by making music videos and then moved on to making documentaries,\u201d says Gaucher, \u201cand I would say within the last seven years my practice has been dedicated to experimental filmmaking and abstraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaucher says his own creative process often begins with him enjoying someone else\u2019s paintings and taking influence from them.<\/p>\n

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Eric Gaucher’s Steve and Dan Shoot Each Other<\/em> is screening at Flux Media Art Gallery until August 12 (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an advocate of painting,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m a fan of painting. I consume a lot of painting, and what I mean by that is that I look at a lot of painters\u2019 work and how they can inspire me within my own work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaucher says imagining how those paintings could move is the beginning of the inspiration for him; that inspiration\u00a0then results in many different emotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be from joy to hate to transcendence to whatever the painting will evoke within my emotional scope,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Gaucher says his background in other forms of art\u2014such as music\u2014complements experimental filmmaking well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt completely lends to it, because I approach the work as if I\u2019m composing music,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t compose it through some kind of narrative, I compose it through feeling and emotion and juxtaposition and rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaucher says that people who enjoy noise and experimental music might enjoy the film; through filmmaking, he provides that noise-based sound with a visual representation, using a hybrid of digital and classic animation, drawing directly onto film. The process of constructing and executing the work for this show took two years, and it was a challenging but rewarding process, says Gaucher, who\u2019s interested in pushing experimental filmmaking to new places.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought making a hybrid digital version of direct animation would enable me to do that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Steve and Dan Shoot Each Other
\n<\/em>Saturday, July 29 to Tuesday, August 12
\nFlux Media Art Gallery
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Eric Gaucher\u2019s work lies in the abstract place where different forms of art\u2014music, poetry, painting, and filmmaking\u2014intersect. The local artist made the film Steve and Dan Shoot Each Other as a result of the many different creative endeavours he has embarked on over the last 20 years, endeavours that include being in bands, making documentaries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t