{"id":10959,"date":"2014-02-01T23:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T04:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:04:42","slug":"no-dona-eis-requiem-another-1840-tate-gallery-gif-party-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2014\/02\/01\/no-dona-eis-requiem-another-1840-tate-gallery-gif-party-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"No dona eis requiem: Another 1840 Tate Gallery GIF Party Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“1870 Rehearsing the Service: No dona eis Requiem” animated GIF by aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n

The original image is “Rehearsing the Service” from 1870 by Alphonse Legros<\/a>, and is one of the images open for interpretation in the Tate Britain<\/strong> “1840s GIF Party: Call for Submissions.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I had to wrap my brain around taking some kind of a different approach to get a GIF out of this image. I knew that something was in there, and it was by viewing the original image through the irreverent lense of Terry Gilliam<\/strong> and Monty Python<\/strong> that resulted in this little endeavour.<\/p>\n

For those not familiar with the antecedent, we need look no further than the venerable You Tube: The following clip was kind enough to provide me with a subtitled transcription, which helped a lot.<\/p>\n