"Playing like a series of overheard conversations, Life and People grapples with communication, language, and recitation by staging common situations—a doctor’s prognosis, a teacher’s report to a parent—in the director’s signature deadpan, but replicating the awkward interactions of his animation to live-action performances."
-- BAMcinematek, Migrating Forms, 2014
Barry Doupé is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with computer animation, digital painting and sculpture. His work uses imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. Doupé’s films are often characterized by fragmented and porous narrative structures, richly textured characters and surreal, poetic situations.
His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally including the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver), Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), e-flux screening room (New York), Swallow Gallery (Lithuania), DOK Leipzig (Germany), Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Deluge Contemporary (Victoria). In 2024, he was selected for the prestigious Sobey Art Award longlist.
For a conversation we had with Barry Doupé visit VDB asks... Barry Doupé
Photo credit: Dennis Ha