This classical animation explores personal memory, associations and atmosphere.
"I remember from the other room I could hear you violently buttering bread. I secretly hoped that I could be your next victim."
"Barry Doupé's lusty A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination."
--Images Festival, 2005 catalog
Barry Doupé is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with computer animation, digital painting and sculpture. His work uses imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. Doupé’s films are often characterized by fragmented and porous narrative structures, richly textured characters and surreal, poetic situations.
His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally including the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver), Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), e-flux screening room (New York), Swallow Gallery (Lithuania), DOK Leipzig (Germany), Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Deluge Contemporary (Victoria). In 2024, he was selected for the prestigious Sobey Art Award longlist.
For a conversation we had with Barry Doupé visit VDB asks... Barry Doupé
Photo credit: Dennis Ha