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.
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.