Negative Space ends with the son looking into his father’s coffin and saying, slightly disgustedly, that there is a lot of “wasted space”, implying another meaning other than the amount of room his father’s body takes up in the coffin. The audience is shown fantastical memories of the son learning how to pack a suitcase with his father as a means of bonding. Most of the screen time, however, is narrated in flashbacks. It starts with the son packing his own suitcase on the way to an undisclosed location, which the audience will later learn is the funeral home after the death of his father. We follow the son from early childhood flashbacks to the present day. The entirety of this animated short revolves around packing a suitcase. This stop motion short film tells of a son reminiscing about his father, who the audience will later learn is now deceased. In this post, I will investigate how the elements of scale, framing, and color conveyed the difference between memory and present reality. This short film, based on the 2014 namesake poem by Ron Koertge, comments on how it is usually not until we are mourning someone that we realize the complexity and biases in which we perceived the deceased while they were alive. The 2017 short film Negative Spaceby Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata is reminiscent of the mental headspace where one may try to recall the rose-tinted memories of the deceased but reality is often more cold and depressing. It is an understatement to say dealing with death is a difficult thing. Early, Silent and Pre-cinematic Animation.CFP dedicated to accepted SAS 2020 presenters.The Persistence of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Interdisciplinary Opportunity of Animation.Technological developments in animation II (the post digital).Technological developments in animation I (pre-digital).Past and Present of Independent Animation.Norman McLaren Centenary: McLaren and Movement.New Theoretical Approaches in Animation.Animation Franchises and the Studio System.
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