FILM INTERACTION AND ANIMATION

Over the years Forkbeard have experimented and entertained their audiences with many ways of interacting with film and video.

"Crossing the Celluloid Divide" has become one of their main trademarks used in their stage shows. It is a comic dynamic between film and performance which, in its simplest form, is the trick of merging from stage to screen and vice versa.

      
This technique stems from some of the earliest experiments by cinema pioneers such as Georges Meliès and Félicien Trewey. They used the new medium of film, following its invention in the 1890's, to explore new ways of presenting what had been, until then, theatrical magic and illusion acts.
    
             
     

Meliès was the creator of cinematic spectacle and the first to use theatrical sets in a film.

Forkbeard reverse this concept to use film within their theatre sets.
             

Here follows a scrapbook containing some of the experiments that have resulted from workshop sessions.

Also included are some of Forkbeard's own dabblings, many of which have evolved from these workshops.