DANIEL BARROW

Animations

While most of my work in animation is created in live performances, I do also create single channel animations using the same antiquated Deluxe Paint program on the Amiga platform.

Handsome Devil

2024

Single channel animation
4 minutes 35 seconds

Music: The Ballet
Original artwork: Daniel Barrow
Animation: Daniel Barrow and Nancy Cabbage
Editing: Clint Enns
Amiga Assistance: Rosy Hanna

This music video in romantic pink and green was created used Amiga software from the late 1980s (DeluxePaint 4). A green-skinned “sissy devil” probes the depths of internet intelligence, composing an “advanced search” on an antiquated search engine (using the lyrics of the Ballet’s song). Simultaneously, a naked, green, feminine artist traces the contours of her devilish destiny on her sketch pad, and then within an imaginary dating app. The “advanced search” becomes a kind of contemporary, queer, love poem.

Handsome Devil premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2024.

Screen capture
Screen capture

Artist Statement

2006

Single channel animation

Music: The Ballet

With the aid of only his Commodore computer and a mouse, Daniel Barrow illustrates and animates his “extremely honest” personal manifesto.

Screenshot from “Artist Statement”
Screenshot from “Artist Statement”

© Daniel Barrow

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