Paintings Used in 'Transfigured'

1998, 35 mm, 05:30

Paintings by Jack Shadbolt

See the paintings (below)

Titles in order of appearance:
    1. Terrain of Fire, 1990
    2. In the Vortex, 1991
    3. Brittany: Boats on the Slab, 1987
    4. Winter Theme #7, 1961
    5. B&W drawing from Mind's 1, 1973 --
    6. combined with Survivors, 1989
    7. Night Field Predator, 1988
    8. Conclave of Birds, 1988
    9. Space Between Columns (Memories of Greece), 1965
    10. Coast Memory #4, 1986
    11. from Ritual of the Arrow, 1972 (triptych)
    12. Altar, 1987
    13. (from Quadrant Suite, 1994)
    14. (from Layered Find, 1995)
    15. Winter Scarecrow, 1989 (foreground)
    16. Hill Enigma, 1989
    17. (from High Range Country - Mountain Summer series, 1977) (triptych)
    18. Shore Image, 1987
    19. The Choice, 1986
    20. Between #10 (Butterfly Entrapment series), 1992
    21. Mountain Storm, 1989
    22. Coastal Classic, 1989
    23. Altered Landscape, 1989
    24. Storm Warning, 1986
    25. Requiem II, 1990 (foreground)
    26. At the Brink, 1989
    27. (Emblem for a Gray Spring, 1989)
    28. Moon Trap, 1989
    29. White Forms in a Field, 1978
    30. Waiting, 1988
    31. (Emergent Form, 1988)
    32. Mountain Lightning, 1988
    33. Spirit Catcher, 1988 (foreground)
    34. Sacred Place, 1984
    35. from High Range Country, 1977
    36. Break-up, 1977
    37. Primavera #1, 1977
    38. Landscape in Yellow, Black & White, 1977
    39. Tree Stump Landscape, 1977
    40. Evening Lake, 1981
    41. Garden Improvisation # 1, 1990
    42. Summer Garden, 1990
    43. Garden Abstraction with Red Forms, 1993
    44. Green Awakening, 1991
    45. Summer Garden Improvisation #4, 1990
    46. World Behind, 1993
    47. Northern Elegy # 2, 1964
    48. Degrees of Gold # ?, 1992
    49. (Sun Reacher, 1987)
    50. Northern Emblem series # ? (orange), 1966
    51. Degrees of Gold # ?, 1992
    52. Degrees of Gold # ?, 1992
    53. Northern Emblem series # ? (blue). 1966
    54. from Northern, 1990 (foreground)
    55. Degrees of Gold # ?, 1992
    56. Bursting Orb, 1992 (one from diptych)
    57. Defiant Reach, 1991
    58. Blue Invasion, 1991
    59. Firey Entrapment, 1991
    60. Yellow Span, 1991
    61. Impaled, 1993
    62. Between # 1, 1992
    63. from Between # 5 - earlier version, 1991
    64. from Butterfly Transformation Theme, 1981
    65. Westward Drift, 1989
    66. Altered reproduction of Toward Totem
    67. (Sea Flowering, 1987)
    68. Toward Totem - earlier version, 1982
    69. (Tower at the Edge, 1989)
    70. from Mountain Pass Experience, 1982
    71. Toward Totem, 1986
    72. from Emergent Image, 1980
    73. Ancient Place, 1978 (triptych)
    74. Device at the Edge, 1989
    75. Monument for an Artist, 1989
    76. Storm Head, 1991 (foreground)
    77. (Stalker, 1991)
    78. (from Coast Memory - earlier version, 1982)
    79. (End Flight, 1977)
    80. (from Quadrant Suite, 1994)
    81. (from End of Season, 1993)
    82. (from Mountain Meadow, 1977)

Film conceived and animated by Stephen X. Arthur, Vancouver

Below are pasted-up snapshots of the paintings used, in order of appearance (with phrase numbers). These are provided for those who have seen the film and/or have the video and would like to compare the originals to the final animation. The pictures are from the new NFB part of the film, the second part (last two thirds) starting after the sequence released as Touched Alive; the starting image (#1) is Moon Trap, number 28 in the titles list (above):

 

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