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'Framed Memory'
'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.
In my work I have been playfully experimenting with space and time; how to show different times and different worlds in one single image?


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.
My graduation project demonstrates how memory is something we always carry with us, and how a space can reveal these memories. In this work I combine drawings, animation and film in order to examine the unreliable nature of our memories.
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.
This short film ' Framed Memory' Visualizes how a woman deals with old memories, upon returning to her childhood house after the death of her father. While she is cleaning the house, we see she is confronted with negative memories. At first she is unaware of them; later she attemps to rid herself of them by walking away; eventually she can no longer avoid the confrontation, which results i a destructive panic attack.
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),  
After a moment of contemplation, she is confronted with a new memory. She tries to fight it, before finally deiding to allow herself to confront this memory. This time, she finds a pleasant memory which she can keep.
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





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'Framed Memory'

In my work I have been playfully experimenting with space and time; how to show different times and different worlds in one single image?

My graduation project demonstrates how memory is something we always carry with us, and how a space can reveal these memories. In this work I combine drawings, animation and film in order to examine the unreliable nature of our memories.

This short film ' Framed Memory' Visualizes how a woman deals with old memories, upon returning to her childhood house after the death of her father. While she is cleaning the house, we see she is confronted with negative memories. At first she is unaware of them; later she attemps to rid herself of them by walking away; eventually she can no longer avoid the confrontation, which results i a destructive panic attack.

After a moment of contemplation, she is confronted with a new memory. She tries to fight it, before finally deiding to allow herself to confront this memory. This time, she finds a pleasant memory which she can keep.


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