# animate! › Films › Body Projections by Tony Donoghue › synopses

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, pixilation, projected animation, the body, body decoration, ritual, experimental short film, filmmaker, animator

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**Body Projections** a film by Tony Donoghue

1998, 5 min 40 sec

### animate! synopsis

Written on the body, a pixillated pillow book of all flesh, this film questions adornment through rhythm and ritual, dream and suggestion, asking why? Sex, territory or cellular expression?

### short synopsis

**Body Projections** examines the human body through body painting, sound and pixillation. Rhythm, ritual and suggestion replace measurements and learning in an attempt to understand why we are drwan to body enhancement.

### long synopsis

In **Body Projections**, rhythm, ritual and suggestion replace measurements and learning in a dreamlike exploration of why, as a species, we have such a history of body decoration. Using projected animation on pixiliated bodies, the film asks why humans paint their bodies – is it a sexual or even territorial gesture or are the body’s cells shouting out in self expression?

**Body Projections** film, stills and other materials © Tony Donoghue 1998