The Foley Artist

2014, 3 minutes

A Foley Artist run into difficulties when dubbing a live track.

The story depicts a foley artist working on a fashion film, intercut with the film itself. The piece humorously highlights the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken to produce it. The film cuts between a beautiful girl moving gracefully through her home getting ready to go out and a middle-aged, scruffy foley artist using increasingly bizarre methods to create sounds to match her actions. The conceit is that rather than recreating each sound in isolation as one would normally, repeating each one until it is perfected; the foley artist is scoring the girls actions 'live' causing escalating tension as he tries to keep up with her.



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The Foley Artist
Tim Dumas