AL and AL
INTERSTELLAR STELLA
About the artists
After graduating together from Saint Martins Art School in 2001, AL and AL received studio awards from acava and acme to build a live-and-work blue screen studio in London. From this blue screen void, AL and AL have programmed and produced a body of video work which uses computer generated environments to provide simulated contexts for their studio performances. They have exhibited internationally in galleries, site specific installations, film festivals and television. In 2006 AL and AL moved their blue screen studio in to the first passenger train station in the world at Edge Hill in Liverpool.
About the work
INTERSTELLAR STELLA is a high definition computer generated video starring AL and AL's child-modeling niece who has grown up living inside the infinite glitter of merchandise after featuring in over 72 advertisements. INTERSTELLAR STELLA follows a photographer who is murdered whilst taking an image of his own reflection, he is given an opportunity to avenge his death and prevent them from influencing Stella when a mysterious shadow figure supplies him with a weapon. The photographer returns to her house to retrieve her soul from the demons who want to abolish the image and turn her in to a house wife like her grandmother.
Additional credits:
AL and AL programmed all of the computer generated spaces, created the original score and performed all of the characters in blue screen apart from the little girl who was played by their eight and half year-old niece Megan Taylor. An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.
