Dilapidation of an arcane existence
This was my final piece in my third year at university. I created this stop-motion animation using self taught methods. Influenced by the works of Jan Švankmajer the Brothers Quay, I made this animation using my own narrative.
Objects, meant for human use and interaction, left in this room to play out a continuous narrative of rebirth and death. This animation tells a story of a possible alternate world where these things could happen. Exploring the idea that even once humans have finished with objects, they still retain their spirit.
Forgotten, after years of being abandoned in a lost room, a puppet comes to life. He goes to the window, the only source of light the room has, and opens the curtain to find the window has been papered up.
As he tears off the paper, the life giving light floods into the room, stimulating the other inanimate objects within the room and they start repairing themselfves.
The celling plaster and joints put themselves together again, the floorboard nails itself back into place, the wallpaper sticks itself back onto the wall and the door knob screws itself back in to the door.
However, this new lease of life is brief, and all the movement from the puppet proves too strenuous for his old strings to cope with and one breaks.
This makes the puppet fall and in turn, the curtain he was holding on to is pulled shut again, revoking the light that was allowed into the room forsaking the objects of their life.