Amanda Yopp
Video and Sound Design
Genius Loci
Year of production: 2004
Running Time: 5:44 min
Color / Sound
Genius Loci is about the feelings and memories we have of "home." Inspired by the book, The Poetics of Space, by French philosopher, Gaston Bachelard. This video was created using found footage and my sound design. It premiered at SXSW in 2005 in the Experimental Short Films category. Genius Loci has also been shown at Berkeley Art Center.
Body Talk
Year of production: 2002
Running Time: 2:52 min
Color / Sound
It's time to accept and love our bodies. Our bodies are an extension of our parents', grandparents', and ancestors' bodies. To love ourselves is to love them.
Like a Light and Girl at Play
video installation at GLOW
Year of production: 2005
Running Time: 1:18 min
Color / Sound
This short video shows art installation, Like a Light and Girl at Play, on display at GLOW. GLOW is an annual multimedia nighttime arts festival at Triangle L Ranch in Oracle, AZ. Video and photography by FOTOSMITH
Like a Light and Girl at Play (side by side)
Year of production: 2005
Running Time: 3:32 min
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As we grow older and the people who raised us and cared for us begin to die, it can feel as if our connection to childhood starts to slip away. I created Like a Light and Amy at Play to explore these feelings after the death of my beloved grandfather.
This video is a combination of two videos, Like a Light and Amy at Play. They were designed to play on different television sets at the same time as an art installation. It was first featured at GLOW, a multimedia nighttime arts festival, at Triangle L Ranch (Oracle, AZ).
Fractal Fantasy Sound Design
Year of production: 2002
Running Time: 2:22 min
Color / Sound
The sound created for this computer animation was inspired by one of my favorite poems, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee. I was taking a sound design class at UW-Madison. This video was given to our class to work with and I felt the pixilated quality and colors gave it an underwater feel.