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    Manipulator

    • 2002
    • 00h 04m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
    • Rent $100
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    Synopsis

    A master brings out his slave and attempts to control him. Things go terribly wrong. Every touch of the slave produces a distortion that encompasses the master. Who exactly is the manipulator? The slave, the master, or the filmmaker?

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • LGBTQ2S+

    Shooting Format

    • 16 mm

    Languages

    • None

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Mono,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • 16 mm,
    • AppleProRes,
    • Beta SP,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Director: Wrik Mead

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    More By Wrik Mead

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    • 2011
    • Wrik Mead

    Over 2500 hand drawn frames create a rotoscope animation of a figure that continuously climbs and falls from a bust of the artist. As the animated figure moves around the bust he exposes different parts of the artists own skin. The performance is an endless loop as he struggles to reach the top. His victory is short lived though as he stumbles shortly after he reaches the summit. After the fall he simply brushes himself and begins the climb again.

    Under/Stand

    Milkman & Milk Bath

    • 2010
    • Wrik Mead

    In “Milkman,” a seated male figure sits staring endlessly ahead, his gaze locked on the viewer. Milk is streaming from his nipple and into a glass that he holds in his left hand. The continuous flow of milk never seems to fill the glass. The sound of the flowing milk creates a human fountain out of this portrait.

    Milkman & Milk Bath

    Prick

    • 2008
    • Wrik Mead

    Stop-motion animation is used to manipulate a penis whose desire becomes its own demise.

    Prick

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