Videos
THE FIELD PLAY PROJECT, 2014
The Field Play Project is an environmental art project comprising two short animated videos and a field guide. Funded with a Makework Artist grant (Chattanooga, TN) the project was used in classrooms to encourage children’s appreciation of the natural world through the art making process. The genesis of the project emerged with the devastation of a field in Mogul’s own backyard, a greenspace inhabited by wildlife, native plants and also a natural playground for her son and other neighborhood children.
Field Play
Field Play is a short video that combines stop motion animation and live action. The landscape is the main character in Field Play. It is seen as a dynamic force from the moment the camera pans through the windswept trees and across the ever-changing field itself. The video presents the beauty and intimate relationship Mogul had with this environment in order to establish an appreciation and empathy on the part of the viewer for the events that unfold. The action parallels the history of this field, the seasonal cycles and finally it’s demise as observed by Mogul over a two year period. In order to stay true to her conservation interests, the puppets and set pieces were constructed from natural and discarded manmade materials found in the actual field. Using simple hinges and joints, these organic sculptural forms gain character and spring to life using stop motion animation.
The Elephant Tree is a short video that documents the working process of making a video. With a focus on sharing the mechanics of the creative process and recognizing the intrinsic value of working sketches and models,The Elephant Tree makes the act of creating visible, causing viewers to rethink the idea of a finished work.
The Elephant Tree
ANTI-ARTIKOS, 2006
Based on a dream, this 23 minute video employs puppets and live action in a constructed paper set. Anti-Artikos follows the adventures of a young girl “Momo” and her penguin friend “Pipi” in a land first identified by early Greek geographers. Believing that a large continent existed at the “bottom” of the world, to balance the land they knew about, early Greeks named this place “Anti-Artikos”. Inhabited by demons, shamans and a skeptical colony of penguins, this piece operates like a morality play in describing greed, power, human foibles and global warming.
