LUDI FLORALES
Duration: 04:57 Mins.
Year: 2015
Format: HD (1920 x 1080)
The Ludi Florales were games celebrated in ancient Rome, from April 28 to May 3, to honor the goddess Flora with wild and orgiastic ceremonies with a pastoral theme where women were dressed in bright colors, while men decorated their heads with garlands of flowers.
Ludi Florales is a refined and powerful work that manages to engage with nature not as a passive subject, but as living, mutating, and symbolic matter. It is an invitation to see the vegetal world as living time, rather than as a decorative backdrop.
The work, which took about 18 months to complete, respecting the natural botanical cycles, was created entirely in stop motion and time lapse.
Soundtrack: ZU (Mimosa Hostilis - Carboniferous, 2008)
Flora Design and Set Up: JOELLE BAVARI
Flora Assistant Set up and Assistant Stop Motion: ELENA GALANTI
THE REPORT:
- The total processing time: 18 months
- Total number of shots: 12.000
- Time-lapse required for each sequence: 07/15 days, 24 h. per day.
- Speed shooting: from 25 to 50 per day (1 shot every half hour or an hour)
- Amounts of plants shooting: 60
- Survival lights: 250 watt x 2, 24 h. per day (I spent a fortune on electricity)
- Stop Motion: 15 days of hard work
- Size of frames: 40 mpixel (Pentax 645 D)
- Lenses used: Macro 240 mm, Wide Angle 45 mm, Zoom 80-160 mm, Tele 75 mm
- Lights: radio-controlled Compact Flashes
- Insect infestations: 2 times. Exterminated with Dobol.
- Intoxication: 1 time, mushroom spore poisoning, 40-day cortisone treatment.