Cover Letter (PDF)

Information Sheet
(1) About You
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Louis Grosperrin
BA Graphic Design Y3, Moving Image

07807674874

Anytime

louisgrosperrin@hotmail.com

www.louisgrosperrin.com

I’m a 21 year old french graphic design student, currently enrolled in the Moving Image
pathway of the Graphic Design course of Central Saint Martins in London.

I have previously lived in Paris and Hong Kong, where I spent the biggest part of my
childhood. My work takes many forms, traditionally more illustration based, but
progressively less flat as I am venturing in the world of animation. I find my inspiration in
tales, legends and science-fiction and enjoy tackling subjects with a touch of irony and
absurdity. 


(2) About Your Work
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Ündertåker

Foley assistant Mika Barroux, and help from Izzy Bizu on soundtrack

No sponsors

This animation is based on the following brief; find a way that would allow someone to
bury themselves once they are gone. I inspired myself from the many examples of Rube
Goldberg machines that have flooded my imagination through cartoons and comics since
my childhood, to create a complex and fully automated contraption that would effectively
allow someone to be taken down in his grave after they pass.

I declined the whole in a sort of cynical parody of Ikea, the aesthetic of the work being
quite close to the style that defines the brand, I decided to decline the image and
philosophy of the multinational company. For me, it symbolises the current trend and taste
of our capitalist society, forever consuming by comfort rather than taste, accumulating
standardised objects with no humanity or sentimental value, hiding behind the clean,
surgical and consumer friendly mask of the brand. We are voraciously hoarding things to
remind ourselves that we are alive in a physical world, accumulating mechanically.
Something for nothing.


(3) Your work – dimensions, materials, installation requirements
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Animation on screen, surrounded by interactive environment of objects and marble
channels, relating to the universe of the video. 

More or less a meter wide, by 2+ meters high.
Access to electricity
No help needed

(4) Images of Your Work
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(images sent on wetransfer.com)

Please indicate here for each image:

- image 1

- Ündertåker animation snapshot

(5) Video
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The work is a video, surrounded by an installation, and sculptural elements

- Ündertåker

- Feeling like your time is coming? Waste no time and learn to build your easy homemade
self-burial machine today !

- Animation/Direction/Foley by Louis Grosperrin

- Mika Barroux as Foley assistant, Izzy Bizy as vocals on soundtrack


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- 3:24

- mp4

- Ipad/monitor/projector

PIease submit the video via electronic link or via USB hard drive by Friday, 10th July
2015 to Ulrike Oberlack (u.oberlack@csm.arts.ac.uk).


The video will be shown in the exhibition, published on the IO web presence in CSM Culture and
promoted via IO publicity where appropriate. Where your video is used or published you will be of
course credited.

(6) IO Publicity Questions
A dedicated publicity team will be promoting The Intelligent Optimist exhibition, exhibitors and the
events programme. Please give them as much material to work with as you feel comfortable to do
by answering the questions below.

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148 Boleyn Road, n168bn, flat 3, London

Paris

French

Yes

No

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Video exhibited at the London Analogue Festival 2014