What is the film about?

A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.

The film explores our perception of time, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.

What influenced it?

Egon Schiele, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Jonathan Gillie, Georges Schwizgebel, Norman McLaren

A little background information...

Everything around us, including our bodies and our ‘self’ is constantly moving, changing and transforming, and yet we can only comprehend time by dividing it up into static differences, only making the before and after visible. The complete flow of transitions remains incomprehensible to us.

I have always been fascinated between the connection of animation theory and philosophy. Animation as a medium is the perfect tool to explore such philosophical ideas about time, movement and change – we seem to perceive movement through still images, yet each frame remains invisible to our eye. The film is a visual and conceptual journey, where time and movement become, alongside with the image itself, just another coordinate to abstract and experiment with. The room, the man, the film – everything moves and becomes one changing entity until it all dissolves and deconstructs completely, leaving only movement behind.

How was the film made?

It was first animated digitally frame by frame and then coloured using different media and methods depending on the moment of the film. At the beginning, the image is very still, dry and solid, it’s mostly dry paint on paper. Later on the film transitions to be more fluid, full of movement and abstraction, done with paint on cell.