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Surviving After Effects via A Speculative Future
Short Short Story TellingWhen we were assigned this project of creating a 3 - 10 second looping stop motion, all I could think about was the 6-word story challenge. With a very strict limitation, we needed to create a narrative as precise and evocative as possible. So Sana and I started with looking for stories or fables that we could draw inspiration from and started with the idea of "rebirth" as the word suggests repetition and allows us to leverage the looping quality as a feature of storytelling.
We started ideating with origami, since the act of folding a figure lends to the idea of creating life and "killing" an origami figure is relatively accessible. However, the story sequence of creating an origami figure and then unfolding it is a common, almost cliche, subject for stop motion, so we pivoted directions and introduced the idea of shadow puppets into the storyline. Assignment - ReadingsThoughts from reading On the Rights of Molotov Man
The reading draws from a conversation between Joy Garnett and Susan Meiselas over the appropriation and context of art. The discussion surrounds a subject known as Molotov Man, who was photographed by Meiselas during her time documenting political activity in Nicaragua. Over two decades later, In Garnett's research for a new project, she came across a partial image of the original photo and saved it for reference, which she did end up painting and became the central piece of her series. Both artists bring important discussion topics to light. Garnett's section discusses the extent of ownership and the limits of intellectual property, while Meiselas' section discusses the value of context and an artists responsibility to research and understand their reference sources. I came away with a few questions and thoughts: |
