Hi Thyrza, when you decide what is hardy and what is not is can always lead to
trouble, trouble is good, I go there all the time.
Temporality and time are pretty big issues. I think as an animator one of
the real challenges is presenting real time images, with silence and stillness.
I don¹t want to promote eca activities in particular, but our next weekly
Research Seminar is on the issue of time and would seem to dovetail into
some of the issues being discussed here, as follows:
The Inner sense of time
Time is intangible. There is no sense organ dedicated to the perception
interesting, I sure hope she is looking at stuff from the last twenty years, I
fear these academics, put her in touch with me, if she needs names, works.
one of my favorite subjects. though I always strat with the sinking of the
lucitania myself. Jim Trainors The Fetishist, is amazing, so are all
I always liked the quality in the Quay films where time seems to lose
all its reference points. Those shots of dust settling or shadows
dancing where you are no longer sure whether you are watching in
realtime or over the course of hundreds of years.
This also made me wonder why certain
Christopher,
The issues you outline below are, in some lights, at play in all art.
What do we show? Tell? And is what we show, do we rely on poetic
association or on the head of the nail literal presentation? How do we
imagine our audiences? How long does it take to read? How long does it
By way of possible follow-up, some of you may be interested in the
research trajectories of a recent USC doctoral student, Annabelle
Honess Roe, whose dissertation revolved around a study of animated
documentaries as seen thru the lens of epistemology:
I argue that animation expands the
Hi Christina, yes hopefully they are the stuff of all art, but sometimes I feel
that animation is not included so I press the point, yes on the graphic
novelists who are doing such great work. love Dan Clowes Velvet Glove cast in
iron, Tina, is I think one of the most fascinating characters ever
