The Moving Image

Catharsis Projection

Catharsis was an interactive community art installation that allowed the participants a chance to shred their negative thoughts and contribute to the creation of a positive community art work.

 Catharsis was a community art project created in partnership between Project pARTners and Beyond Empathy.

The Brolga Dance

The brolga dance animation is an example of a technique called Rotoscoping. Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. The brolga dance was commissioned by Beyond Empathy and used as back projection during a dance piece performed at the Festival of the Brave in Armidale, 2014. The dance was choreographed by Michael Leslie and performed by Carmel Vale.

Private Posts

This animation is one of the artistic outcomes of a community art project which ran through 2016-17 in Armidale in NSW. "Private Posts" was funded by the Australia Council and invited the whole community to create a postcard beginning with the prompt “I wish I had told you …”

The postcard text and images was used to create an exciting animated community story. The original postcards are a beautiful collage of many individual reflections. There are glimpses of deeply personal stories, insights into long-held regrets or lost love, some dreams and fantasy and a few humorous quips. Then there are stories from the everyday that resonate because of their familiarity.

Unhelica

The brief was to use stop frame cameras to capture the process of pasting images and words in Armidale’s central mall. 

Beyond Empathy artist, Raphaela Rosella had worked with girls and young women in Armidale schools and community – sharing a conversation about what it means to be brave, beautiful and strong.