Experimenting What?
Experimental Animation is a phrase, if my communication one is correct, that tends to have a colorful reputation. Often, if we can not understand the content of an animation material, automatically, we call it experimental. This is how we " understand" experimental animation.
To be technical about it, Experimental Animation is always in the future tense. Anything that is past or present is not experimental. The conception of this animation movement is geared towards the invention of new artistic, technological, commercial and cultural devices, methods and processes in the field of animation. So, if you are using existing methods, processes or devices, you are not part of the general scope of experimental animation.
Furthermore, breakdown of communication is not experimental. The creation of new language... that is experimental. Thus, if you do not understand the content of an animation material, then, this is simply a breakdown or non-deployment of any communication construct between you and the material.
Some animators, not all, use experimental animation as a cliche to hide from real animation principles. Ignorance is not experimental. There is, therefore, a clear difference between breaking the rules and breaking through the rules. A barbarian could easily break the rules by simply not taking a bath. Breaking through the rules requires a lot of heartfelt and genuine sentiment of meaning and understanding.
I met a lot of "so-called" experimental animators who insist that they are changing the face of Philippine Animation. But when you look at their works, you tend to ask the question... " is this guy for real?'
Watching, in animation, a singing vagina will provoke anyone. But at the end of the " freak show", did it matter at all?
When is experimental... experimental? I feel that experimentation is always about challenging the conventions because there is a need to challenge them. If experimentation is just a measure of a whim or a desire to show-off, well for me, it is beyond the scope of experimentation.
To be technical about it, Experimental Animation is always in the future tense. Anything that is past or present is not experimental. The conception of this animation movement is geared towards the invention of new artistic, technological, commercial and cultural devices, methods and processes in the field of animation. So, if you are using existing methods, processes or devices, you are not part of the general scope of experimental animation.
Furthermore, breakdown of communication is not experimental. The creation of new language... that is experimental. Thus, if you do not understand the content of an animation material, then, this is simply a breakdown or non-deployment of any communication construct between you and the material.
Some animators, not all, use experimental animation as a cliche to hide from real animation principles. Ignorance is not experimental. There is, therefore, a clear difference between breaking the rules and breaking through the rules. A barbarian could easily break the rules by simply not taking a bath. Breaking through the rules requires a lot of heartfelt and genuine sentiment of meaning and understanding.
I met a lot of "so-called" experimental animators who insist that they are changing the face of Philippine Animation. But when you look at their works, you tend to ask the question... " is this guy for real?'
Watching, in animation, a singing vagina will provoke anyone. But at the end of the " freak show", did it matter at all?
When is experimental... experimental? I feel that experimentation is always about challenging the conventions because there is a need to challenge them. If experimentation is just a measure of a whim or a desire to show-off, well for me, it is beyond the scope of experimentation.
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