Souvenir Statuette Excerpt from Sabine Gruffat on Vimeo.
RT 13:12 minutes
Digital Video, 3D Animation, and Hand Motion Capture
Stereo
Souvenirs of souvenirs of souvenirs. Softwares of hardwares everywhere. Souvenir Statuettes were animated in real spaces with the aid with a custom made augmented reality application. Whether they be cast from a mold, or 3d scanned and propagated online, Souvenir Statuettes aim for virality. Some of the quasi-objects in this video were once objects, others are non-objects or computer model imaginaries. What do objects do when they are liberated from their non-function? None of these leave a trace, but all of them will be here forever.
Souvenir Statuette is an animated theory of objects and a memory for filmmaker Paul Bush. It is also an experimental video about the aesthetics and material properties of the souvenir tchotchke, these decorative objects we surround ourselves with and live amongst. Some tchotchkes are gifts, others might be inherited, some have personal value or a memory associated with it, and others might just be arbitrarily there for decoration. These objects reveal who we are individually and as a culture as well as how we see ourselves.