User:Loes van Dorp/Archive Graduation Project

GRADUATION PROJECT

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Think Through Making ------ Thinking with my Hands

Synopses

'Framed Memory'

For my graduation project I made the short stop-motion animation film 'Framed Memory' where you see how a woman deals with old memories, when returning to her childhood house after the death of her father.

While she is cleaning the house, you see how she is confronted with bad memories. At first isn't aware of them. When she is, she is trying to get rid of them by walking away from them. At the third confrontation she is not longer able to keep her emotions to herself. This results in a destructive panic attack. After a moment of contemplation she gets confronted with a memory again. She tries to fight it but then curiosity takes the overhand and she decides to be confronted with the memory. This time she finds a nice memory to keep.

The whole film is made with stop-motion (sequences of still image), but uses the real world as set and a real human as protagonist. The memories appear as drawings on glass objects (windows, doors, drinking glasses). The glass is as a window to the past and uses the space which is visible through the glass as background.. By using this technique the space is literally given an extra layer. Stop-motion animation brings the drawings to live.

In the drawn animations I am also playing with the drawing and its place in the real space. Through subtle interactions between the real space and the drawing (moving of the chair), I connect both realities.

The technique I used in 'Framed Memory' is related to the one I used in a previous research projects 'Portrait of an empty house' and ' Looking for' .

Both projects are showing different times and different worlds in one image and are using a glass surface to draw the animations on. They are an attempt to show how memories define a known space. Pictures of Portrait of an empty house

THESIS

• FINAL THESIS: Thinking with my hands

Process

• Loes van Dorp

End Result

• End Result 'Framed Memory'