16 posts tagged “animation”
a 1:39 sample of what's in store for viewers on saturday night at the brillobox in pittsburgh.
In this Israeli documentary, the filmmaker comes to terms with his memory loss around his participation in the Israeli war in Lebanon, and his role as facilitator/witness to horrible slaughters of Palestinians in that war.
The animation is beautiful, and allows the audience to come closer to an incredibly difficult topic. It allows the viewer to take the journey with him as he comes to terms with the horrors of war.
Most remarkably, the film was made with the full support of the Israeli government, and received 6 Israeli 'academy awards', while presenting the troubling reality that Israeli troops facilitated a slaughter that echoed the reality of the Nazi slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps - a theme brought up by the film itself.
I went to see it last night when my friend called me up and invited me. She said, "Its animated, its a journey into the past to deal with war trauma memory, it's right up your alley". And so it was.
I learned alot from the techniques of that film. I know I need to make longer pieces in order to draw the viewer in slowly, bring them closer to the difficulty of human violence and loss. This film taught me a great deal about creating that journey for an audience, and making it palatable enough to watch it.
Created for Public Domain, Private Dominion (volume 3), an invitational film festival that screens 11/2.
Curated by Ben Hernstrom with copyright-free footage selected by Justin Crimone, the festival provided footage to filmmakers who used it as the raw materials for new short films.
My 7-minute film is a meditation on how looking at war from the perspective provided by the media invites us to take the warrier's viewpoint. Are we complicit, by participating via our imagination? What does the experience of the passivity of viewing do to us, looking at war from this perspective?
micronarrative videos created as animated text with sequenced audio.
each video is just over a minute in length. this constrains the narrative. language use can be examined more easily.
the choice of sequenced audio refers to the inner necessary logic of story present in each narrative fragment.
I produced 6 of these to be sprinkled throughout the night at the Slumber Party film screening put on by the Matchwood Festival in Braddock on Friday August 22.
I expect to produce more. They point to the joint-like structure of narrative content. Created between-fillers, like putty, which is what a great deal of language is to story -- language provides the timing of dissemination of information, the pacing of 'plot', the power of the moment of delivery of content to the audience. the timing of a story as part of a seduction of the audience, as it were.
the choice of sequenced audio refers to the inner necessary logic of story present in each narrative fragment.
I produced 6 of these to be sprinkled throughout the night at the Slumber Party film screening put on by the Matchwood Festival in Braddock on Friday August 22.
I expect to produce more. They point to the joint-like structure of narrative content. Created between-fillers, like putty, which is what a great deal of language is to story -- language provides the timing of dissemination of information, the pacing of 'plot', the power of the moment of delivery of content to the audience. the timing of a story as part of a seduction of the audience, as it were.
