LOST AND FOUND
Skinned Warrior
Besides the poem, the film is based on a drawing I made as a juvenile kid of 15 years of an anatomical statue called Skinned Warrior. Originally called L'Ecorché Combattant, an anatomy study statue made by the famous french neoclassical sculptorJacques-Eugene Caudron in 1845. The original stands in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A copy of the Skinned Warrior stood on the mantelpiece in my parents' house. Both my father and mother used it as reference in their sculpting and drawing professions. I made a pen drawing of it combined with a lunar lander for the submission to the art academy. It probably helped my admission.
Finally, I did inherit the statue.
The drawing got lost for some 45 years to finally re-emerge in my strorage some years ago. It was the trigger to finally fulfill my wish as juvenile to make a film on the Skinned Warrior in combination with the Lunar Module.
Skinned Warrior
Besides the poem, the film is based on a drawing I made as a juvenile kid of 15 years of an anatomical statue called Skinned Warrior. Originally called L'Ecorché Combattant, an anatomy study statue made by the famous french neoclassical sculptorJacques-Eugene Caudron in 1845. The original stands in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A copy of the Skinned Warrior stood on the mantelpiece in my parents' house. Both my father and mother used it as reference in their sculpting and drawing professions. I made a pen drawing of it combined with a lunar lander for the submission to the art academy. It probably helped my admission.
Finally, I did inherit the statue.
The drawing got lost for some 45 years to finally re-emerge in my strorage some years ago. It was the trigger to finally fulfill my wish as juvenile to make a film on the Skinned Warrior in combination with the Lunar Module.
My juvenile drawing made in 1975
Still out of the film Lunatic made in 2023
Cargo Space Ship 40LY
Another lost and found item was my apprentice work I made at the Toonder Studio's in 1982. It was a gigantic model of a spaceship, made of all sorts of everyday objects. About thirty interiors of compact cassettes formed the basis of the ship. I never got around to finishing the short film it was made for, because my sudden career at NOS broadcaster shifted my focus. My girlfriend at the time loved the ship so much that she hung it in her living room. It stayed there exactly 40 years after we broke up. Only very recently, just in the nick of time to participate in the film, did it come back to me. Hence its renaming to 40 Light Years (40LY).
Another lost and found item was my apprentice work I made at the Toonder Studio's in 1982. It was a gigantic model of a spaceship, made of all sorts of everyday objects. About thirty interiors of compact cassettes formed the basis of the ship. I never got around to finishing the short film it was made for, because my sudden career at NOS broadcaster shifted my focus. My girlfriend at the time loved the ship so much that she hung it in her living room. It stayed there exactly 40 years after we broke up. Only very recently, just in the nick of time to participate in the film, did it come back to me. Hence its renaming to 40 Light Years (40LY).
