The Jackleg Testament, Part One Jack and Eve: A Woodcut Motion Picture is exactly what is stated; it is a movie that is in fact an hour and two minutes long. It was created in 2007 by …show more content…
He remains a storyteller at heart in all cases of his artwork. When creating his animated “motion pictures” he actually makes his own wood cuttings and drawings come to life by scanning them and creating a digital animation with them. Bolotin is very expressive through his visual treatments and also by his musical scores. Bolotin reminds me of William Shakespeare with his lyrics to his motion pictures he created. Bolotin’s motion picture is projected on the wall of Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in the gallery called Camera Lucida. I did not sit to watch the entire movie that was showing, but I did sit there long enough to capture the art of Bolotin through his motion picture. The Jackleg Testament, Part One Jack and Eve: A Woodcut Motion Picture is clearly not like any other movie I have ever seen, it is almost as if a Shakespeare lyric were brought to life. The characters’ skin were all different colors, some were green and blue, others had more neutral skin tones as actual humans would. Each character had very sharp details, the eyes were piercing, their chins, cheekbones and jawlines were