Notes on Miwa Matrayek's Animations

FACTORY

  • Black and white – dull and dismal, gritty, cold
  • Hand machine, blender, guys on spanners
  • Lethargic atmosphere
  • Abstract, surreal
  • Retro, old school
  • Geometric, sharp, boxy shapes
  • Positive space, full of objects, stuff

CIRCUS

  • Starts with negative space and quiet sounds and creaks
  • Imagery is associated with a circus
  • Black and white – old circus
  • Sounds to create the noisy, bight, albeit strange atmosphere generally associated with a circus

DIGITOPIA – utopia: a place where

  • Starts with a sun/Hindu god
  • Representation of a bunch of things
  • Head coming out of the mountains,
  • brain appears (looks like a flower, represents growth, mother earth/nature) – (butterfly, freedom) – (tree of life, knowledge) – (angel, heaven)
  • emits rings – sounds, thoughts, brainwaves, energy, love?
  • ‘plants’ and ‘flowers’ formed by hands consume the ‘energy’, ‘life force’
  • hands in the city are dying, away from nature
  • humans exploit hands to use as transport
  • Reflexology (nerves in hand connected to body organs) and palmistry (reading hands to see the future) chakra points
  • Hand 1 – points, intestines, spleen/pancreas, small intestine, brain, stomach, eyeball, mouth, lungs, heart,
  • Mysticism, hands are important in every religion, represent human emotions, human body, human spirit
  • Artist used digital backs to represent city, dark, scary, mouths,
  • Microscope, examining reproducing cells

Shot 1: This shot depicts an eye connected to multiple hand moving in the sky above mountains

It could be:

  • A representation of the Hindu god Vishnu, who has multiple arms, flying in the sky – represents spirituality
  • A representation of the sun, rising in the morning
  • A futuristic flying vehicle – represents technology
  • A combination of religious and physical representations created into a form of deity or god that exists in this from of utopia

Shot 2: This shot contains a large head protruding from the mountains, in which an image of a brain appears and begins to emit white circular lines

It could be:

  • Mother Earth/Nature waking up, with the image appearing in her head being a flower or tree to represent either beauty, nature, growth, life or knowledge, and emitting rays of energy/sound/light/love
  • Alternatively, the image could be a butterfly and represent freedom
  • The head could also be a giant stuck in a mountain sending out thought or brainwaves for help

Shot 3: This shot depicts multitudes of arms protruding from the mountains, moving around as the circular lines hit them

It could be:

  • Creatures living in this utopia, who feed off the rays of light/energy/love, and are moving around to better absorb them
  • The arms of trapped giants, moving around in desperation to escape
  • Trees/plants/flowers moving around to absorb the sunlight

Shot 4: This shot depicts giant arms moving or twitching in a city

It could be:

  • Creatures kidnaped from the wild to be exploited by humans, whose life force is fading away in the mechanical surroundings of the city
  • Chopped-off giants’ arms left behind in the aftermath of a war
  • Invading creatures, who are attempting to destroy the city
  • A form of transport in this utopia

Shot 5: This shot depicts hands with people in them walking around on what looks like dead tress next to a building

  • The creatures being exploited as transport by humans – represents slavery, destruction of nature
  • The hands ate the people or are developing into people
  • Merely depicts one of the various uses of hands

Shot 6: The hands are performing actions on and a round a multitude of different electronic devices while a woman stands by, whose arm turns into a zig-zag shape

It could be:

  • The hands could be enslaved by the woman, and forced to work on a representation of a machine
  • In this utopia they could exist as a race similar to humans, or a more evolved version of the human race
  • The woman could be evolving to become like them

Shot 7: This shot depicts another scene of the hands on the mountain, this time moving in unison.

It could be:

  • Similar to before, they are moving in order to soak up the light/energy/love
  • They are moving in unison in a form of mourning for those of their kin that have been enslaved as the world develops and become digitalised
  • They are searching for sustenance as no more energy rings are coming

Shot 8: This shot depicts two hands, one with points and images of various organs, and the other with numerous symbols and lines

It could be:

  • A representation of reflexology, depicting how nerve points in the hand are connected to various organs
  • A representation of palmistry, depicting how palms can be used to read ones future and pathway through life, as well as health and character
  • An explanation from the director for how the hand exist by themselves, by taking theory and making it literal and real in these creatures

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