{"id":19221,"date":"2015-03-13T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=19221"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:29:24","slug":"nfb-hothouse-10-focus-alex-boya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/nfb-hothouse-10-focus-alex-boya\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB Hothouse 10: \u2018Focus\u2019 (Alex Boya)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alex-Boya_cropped\"<\/a>Alex Boya<\/a> first began his life as an animator at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema<\/a>, developing from an enthusiasm for drawing from observation. His focus at present is “turned on the unconscious, fully documenting the process in strange drawings found on YouTube”. Having created the short animation <\/strong><\/em>Rite of Passage<\/strong> (which screened the Fantasia International Film Festival), Alex’s first endeavour with the NFB<\/a> as part of Hothouse 10<\/a> is <\/strong><\/em>Fo<\/strong>c<\/strong>us<\/strong><\/a>, a densely-packed, synaptical journey through attention deficit disorder, taking its cue from the found sound of a shopper’s online vlog. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I started drawing just for fun when I was a kid, dissecting organisms in my sketches and creating impossible machines. Later, my synthetic fauna needed to move around in a habitat.<\/p>\n

Developing Focus<\/em> <\/strong>was like luring a Legged Squad Support System through a muddy and narrow drainage channel dug in the ground alongside a road or the edge of a field, in the sense that the vehicle moved in slightly strange or unusual ways over irregular ground, but a certain destination was thankfully being tracked by GPS (the GPS being the Hothouse mentoring team). In other words, I somehow saw where I wanted to go, but getting there was a convoluted affair.
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