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Barry Doupé

Born 1982 - Victoria, BC Canada

Barry Doupé is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with computer animation. He graduated from the Emily Carr University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Media Arts majoring in animation. His films use imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. He often creates settings within which a characters' self-expression or action is challenged and thwarted, resulting in comic, violent and poetic spectacles. His films have been screened throughout Canada and internationally including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Pleasure Dome, MOCCA, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Tate Modern.

"With seemingly rudimentary animation techniques indicative of early video-game design, Doupé at once meticulously refines and works to obfuscate detail, as if what he has shown is only a disturbing state in process, a process that is familiarly left unseen or disavowed. His animations…are marked with this anxiety, the ambivalence that persists at the knife-edge of symbolization and the unspeakable beyond it."

--Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Winter 2007 calendar

For a conversation we had with Barry Doupé visit VDB asks... Barry Doupé


Available Titles by Barry Doupé

Title Year Runtime Collection
At the Heart of a Sparrow 2006 00:30:00 Single Titles
A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose 2004 00:15:45 Single Titles
The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important 2012 01:58:00 Single Titles
Distracted Blueberry 2019 04:33:00 New Releases, Single Titles
Distraught Mother Reunites with Her Children 2005 00:24:38 Single Titles
Barry Doupé Videoworks: Volume 1 2012 01:10:23 Single Artist Compilations, Compilations
Life and People 2014 00:22:45 Single Titles
Ponytail 2008 01:32:00 Single Titles
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Barry Doupé in conversation with Clark Buckner at Telematic Media Arts
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The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important
Making Sense with Experimental Animator Barry Doupé
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VDB Asks... Barry Doupé

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