David Lebrun

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”

Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.

Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.

Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.

Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.

Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.

The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great undeciphered writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.

The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great undeciphered writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.

The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.

The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.

승객 144명을 태운 미국의 ATW 항국 282편이 레바논의 신세계 혁명기구의 일원에 의해 공중납치된다. 이에 미국측에서는 이들을 구출할 목적으로 '델타 포스'라는 특공대를 중동지역에 파견하게 된다. 납치범들은 그들의 동지를 풀어주는 대신 여자와 아이들을 풀어줄 것을 제의하고 이들의 제의에 따라 여자와 아이들은 무사히 비행기에서 풀어나게 된다. 이 곳에서 인질 구출작전을 펴려던 특공대는 작전개시 직전에 비행기에 다른 납치범들이 합류했으며 유대인들은 이미 사전에 다른 곳으로 이송시켰다는 사실을 알게 되고, 작전은 일단 보류되고 만다. 범인들이 인질들을 베이루트 전역에 분산 수용시켰다는 소식을 입수하게 된 특공대는 3개 부대로 나누어 인질 구출작전을 펴게 되는데...

"Tanka" means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Short film from The Forms: Four Worlds, an immersive installation comprising an orchestrated set of 100 animations that trace universal human images and forms across time and space.

Sidereal Time was filmed in 1979 in at Sayil, Labna, Xlapak and Kabah, small ancient Maya sites in the Puuc region of Yucatan. The film was completed in 1981 as a two-screen piece for live variable speed Super-8 performance. Sidereal Time was photographed at reduced speeds ranging from 6 frames per second to time lapse, and then projected at variable reduced speeds, both to fragment motion and to introduce a mechanical and sometimes hallucinatory shutter strobe. The film was recreated digitally in 2018, using various editing techniques to reproduce the effects of analog projection in the shutter-less digital medium.