Out in the Open (2017)

A research based animated story created and screened at the Queen Victoria Market about a trader’s connection to the market and the sentiments existing below the surface of the hustle and bustle.

  • 2017 Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia

    2017 Puppet Is A Human Too Festival, Poland)

    2017 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Sapporo, Japan

    2017 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK

    2017 Craft Animation Festival, Indonesia

    2017 Sommets du cinéma d’animation,
    Montreal, Canada

    2018 Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival,
    Austria

  • Written, Directed and Animated by
    Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine

    Sound
    Byron Scullin & Camilla Hannan

    Foley
    Gerry Long & Scott Heming

    Puppet & Wardrobe
    Fiona Edwards

    Set
    Madeleine Griffith

    Heart Sculpt
    Victoria Mason

    Colourist
    Daniel Stonehouse

    Carpentry
    Wade Lovich & Simon MacEwan

    Box Modification
    Danny Gelai

    Extra Hands
    Bianka Basic, Rebecca Hayes, Cat Rabbit, Sera Tuitaru, Paula van Beek

    Extra Eyes
    Kristoffer Paulson, Anna Jeffries

    Thanks
    Mattt Bags, Jason Patterson, Maureen Watts, Benjamin Portas, James Cecil, Like Butter

    Our deepest thanks to everyone at the Queen Victoria Market.

When you spend fifty years of your life waking up to work before dawn, just what are you getting up for?

Out In The Open tells the story of a trader’s struggle to stay relevant in a changing world. Using stop-motion animation and sound, co-directors Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine have created a surreal, imagined future where age-old tradition has been left behind. 

Animated puppets and miniature models narrate a hidden side of the market and the deep relationship a trader has with his place of work. Ultimately, Knowles and Sowerwine ask audiences to contemplate: what exactly is being sold? 

Duration: 10’44” 
Completed April 2017

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Installation

Out In The Open was originally created as a site specific video installation for the 2016 Melbourne Festival. We installed a television inside one of the life-sized metal boxes which our story is centred around. We created a cinema space for audience to sit and in the surrounding boxes our sound designer Byron Scullin installed speakers which rumbled the shelves of the boxes to enhance the soundtrack. We showed it in “Shed A” at the market and sat with it amongst the traders while market shoppers, traders and art festival public came and sat with George.

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