Jake Fried

Birth : 1984-01-01,

History

Jake Fried (1984) began his artistic career as a painter, but as he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he realized what truly interested him was the way the images metamorphosed in the course of making a painting and he changed tracks to become an animator. In recent years his films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern, Sundance Film Festival and on Adult Swim. Fried works with ink and white-out, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create mind-bending animations that evolve at a frenzied pace. He currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Profile

Movies

The Blank Page

Director

One drawing reworked and scanned frame by frame.

Harley-Davidson '115th Anniversary'

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Commission for Harley-Davidson to celebrate their 115th Anniversary.

Brain Wave

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Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Face Mask

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Experimental animation with video collage.

Paper Trail

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Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and collage.

Mind Frame

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Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee. 

Night Vision

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Kaleidoscopic one minute animation windfall from Jake Fried, like penetrating the third eye. Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out .

Headspace

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Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

Brain Lapse

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2014 from Jake Fried - Fractured identities reflecting against a panoramic vista. Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out, coffee and collage

The Deep End

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Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee

Raw Data

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Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

Down Into Nothing

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Kaleidoscopic overlays... hand drawn animation with buildings rising and falling, Native Americans crying and highways being formed - among other things. 2013 Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee

Waiting Room

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Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Sick Leave

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Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Last Meal

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Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Headache

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Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and crayon.

Nightfall

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Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Open Eyes

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Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.