Reflection of Jacques Derrida

Kant believed frame is accessory, such as the frame of painting，the columns of the building. Derrida thought that the frame defines the opposition of inside and outside part. Frame will guide the viewer's attention to the center content of the work, which use to differ from the world outside the frame. It is the frame to construct the central meaning of the work. Frame is everywhere. It is not just art having the frame. It is also in our life. All things are working around frame.

There are a lot of opinions that I am really interested in, like he thought there is no singular origin. Life is a cellular process, so I started to think what thing is the first birth in the world. I am really curious about it. I heard a question before, “Are the eggs come first or the chicken comes first”?

Also, the label example makes me really resonated. People will not help to see the label when they are looking at the painting works. Then they will automatically give the content of the label to the works, and they will have the feeling: “yeah, that is right”. However, if the label cannot be found, people will be worried. They feel that they can’t really understand the work. Such preconceptions often make us really far away from the real understanding of a piece of work.

I think deconstruction is not only a form of art, but also to break the shackles and the limitation of artistic creation. The artist should be open-minded. Art should not have bound but have creativity and flexibility. We should do a variety of interesting attempt through divergent thinking.

Reflection of time & again

I really like the style that he used to create the animation. It is amazing. It is like an animated comic book. I am so excited that I saw this animation and gave me inspiration that animation can have many forms and we can make more interesting if we keep trying. This is about a man’s daily life. It would be very boring if the director just used the normal way to animate. Every time I thought it was over it continued. 

There are many excellent ways I think it’s really worth to learn. The whole style is like a comic book, the story is happening from one square to the next square. I like when the next square works, the last square will turn dark. This is easy for audiences to follow the story. And although the style is 2 Dimensional, he used the 3 Dimensional to change the scene. Also, about the background, he used the wrinkled paper texture and it keeps changing. I imagine it is like we flip the pages. Another interesting part is he used the comic dialog bubbles to replace the voice. Although the style is interesting, but I feel sad with the story and the classic piano music. He used the real painting on the notebook to show the character's imagination, it is also very interesting and innovative. It reminds me my little drawing in my notebook.

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Project 1

Reflection of Street of Crocodiles

This short film combines live action and stop-motion animation. The beginning of the film laid the whole tone of the film. A man spat in an old projector, and then this moldy machine stared to run, which put us into an underground world of dust. The entire work is full of mechanical sensitivity, and dark, dirty and wet.

I liked the part of the doll. On the glass are reflections of the man and the dolls, plus the appearances of the dolls, which create a great horror atmosphere. They have no eyes, so I wonder why. It feels like a dream. In the shadow of glass, the dolls moved up, saluted and gave him haircut. I began to think that something terrible would happen, but it did not. It's like a dark fairy tale.

New Progress of Project#1

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Video Test

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