Jake Fried
Directing
Biography
Jake Fried (1984) began his artistic career as a painter, but as he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he realized what truly interested him was the way the images metamorphosed in the course of making a painting and he changed tracks to become an animator. In recent years his films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern, Sundance Film Festival and on Adult Swim. Fried works with ink and white-out, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create mind-bending animations that evolve at a frenzied pace. He currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Known For
The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.
Coldplay: A Film for the Future
Kaleidoscopic one minute animation windfall from Jake Fried, like penetrating the third eye. Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out .
Night Vision
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.
Sick Leave
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.
Nightfall
Kaleidoscopic overlays... hand drawn animation with buildings rising and falling, Native Americans crying and highways being formed - among other things. 2013 Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee
Down Into Nothing
Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee
The Deep End
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.
Brain Wave
Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and crayon.
Headache
2014 from Jake Fried - Fractured identities reflecting against a panoramic vista. Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out, coffee and collage
Brain Lapse
Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee.
Mind Frame
Commission for Harley-Davidson to celebrate their 115th Anniversary.
Harley-Davidson '115th Anniversary'
Psychedilic autobiographical abstraction.
Strange Light
Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.
Headspace
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.
Open Eyes
Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.
Raw Data
Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and collage.
Paper Trail
Experimental animation with video collage.
Face Mask
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.
Waiting Room
One drawing reworked and scanned frame by frame.
The Blank Page
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.