Direct Animation
ダイレクト・アニメーション / 1935– / Technique / Experimental Film
Making film without a camera — drawing, scratching and pasting directly on the filmstrip, so the material itself becomes brushstroke and rhythm.
Hand-drawing on film / Scratched marks / Continuity that ignores frames / Physical blots of color
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Len Lye, A Colour Box (1935) / Norman McLaren / Stan Brakhage, Mothlight