2002 /
Tulips at Dawn
Rosie Pedlow

Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of a poem by Nobel Laureate Chemist Roald Hoffmann. The film is an experiment to illustrate how technology changes the way we represent the world, with results that prove ironic and inconclusive.

The film was produced using a mixture of technologies. The diagrams were drawn directly into a computer and combined with digitised archive footage and sequences created on a rostrum camera.

Tulips at Dawn was commissioned in 2001 through animate! for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England. Completed in October 2002, it has been shown extensively at international film festivals including Clermont Ferrand and has been nominated for several awards including the Karlsruhe International Media Art Award. www.swr.de/medienkunstpreis www.animateonline.org

funded by /
animate! for Channel 4 and The Arts Council of England

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3:24, available on beta SP or digibeta

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