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SKETCH! -- a short film by Dick Ford

c. 2006 8 minutes.

SKETCH! is a whirlwind tour through 30 years of the artist-filmmaker's sketch books, drawings, and paintings, revealing an astonishing range of drawing styles.

SKETCH! includes over a thousand different images selected from tens of thousands of drawings, sketches, and art works all from one artist, Dick Ford. The images span from student work to that of a professional visual artist. There are academic studies from the old masters of western and eastern art traditions, figure drawing studies, rapidly executed sketches of passersby in public spaces, and detailed portraits of close friends and family. Styles range from photographic realism, through gestural inventions, to abstractions of pure form.

The film presents a flowing sequence of images leading from one sketch book to another, edited to original music created by the artist in collaboration with his brother, Dennis Ford. The rich variety of imagery offers the viewer many surprises along the way as visual ideas generate and develop, change, merge with one another, and evolve into new expressions.

BIO - RESUME

Dick Ford is an artist who has been productive in a plurality of fields. He has blundered through life and stumbled into 'prestigious' awards, one man shows, international film and video festivals, Superbowl commercials, miraculous good fortune, and miraculous tragedy. He lives in Mississippi, in a region occupied by his ancestors for a duality centuries, and he prefers to write, when pressed for a press kit, in the voice of the third person.

"SKETCH!" won Best Experimental Film at the Crossroad's Film Festival in Jackson, MS March 31, 2006. See the question and answer session after the screening. 

"SKETCH!" screened at the Tupelo Film Festival May 18-21, 2006

SKETCH! at YOUTUBE

SKETCH! [18MB]

SAMPLE MOVIE CLIP
Quicktime movie [7MB]

  The Golfer - another short film

Dick Ford Animations