web link to view animation: Heidistokes.org.uk Format: swf length: 1 min 43 seconds title: One person Street
synopsis: One person street is about a world were only one street exists. A gangster type character dances playfully to a contradictory melancholic musical score, as a metaphor for the personal journey that he himself has to build.
Heidi stokes is an artist living and working in London. She was Born in Devon, England. Heidi completed an MA in fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London in 2001.She works in digital media, primarily animation. She has exhibited internationally and nationally. Most recent film festivals/ exhibitions, selected for ANIMACALL PROJECT 2011 at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki in Greece, CologneOFF VII 2011 international video art film festival and recently screened at the Rich Mix cinma Bethnal green in collaboration with the Cabinet of living cinema , who has recently shown at the Edinburugh film festival.
All the images are stills taken from animations. Each piece in some way reinvents the meanings of objects or spaces to help question or re-evaluate our psychological needs. Fundamentally the work questions our innate drive to exist and function in an ordered world against all odds, even if that means the destruction of its own kind. Aldous Huxsley was ahead of his time in this respect in producing perhaps one of his most renowned books ‘ Brave new world ‘ in 1932, which questions the consequences of a world governed by systematising rather than humanising.
To view most recent animation, with reference to the above image stills, please click on my website link below (http://heidistokes.org.uk/)
