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ADAM by Evelyn Ross
- soundtrack very visceral, breathing and watery sounds... the sounds in this video blend representation of bodily sounds with nature sounds which relates to the ideas i am thinking about in soundtracking my animations of nature/bodily vessels and blobs. thinking about the body as something natural and constructed, this piece is interested in these ideas as well.



both of these videos play with elimination/assimilation of the frame which is something i have begun to explore this semester. the techniques shown in both videos (especially the waves on the left and forms emerging from sandy looking clay) will inform my next session of shooting claymation

IM RAHMEN by Evgenia Gostrer
i found this video relatable because it seems to work collaboratively with the clay, allowing bodily forms to reveal themselves as the artist films. the video doesn't look forced or extensively pre-planned and it flows so well. the incorporation of the forms with the entire background and frame is really interesting as it creates a narrative where the container and contained are the same thing, which is an idea i am interested in right now. i might try animating like this with the entire frame being occupied by clay. for my black background animations i could use black plasticine and play with the space to make it appear alive as well rather than an empty flat void.

EXPRESSIONS CARNIVORES by Chloe Mazlo
Though I haven't done this yet, I have been thinking about animating meat as another way of discussing mortality and the objectness of the human body/experience of being conscious inside an object. my favourite part in this video is the mother hen where a whole chicken is animated to seem real and it grabs an egg and holds it under its wing, crushing the egg with indifference. another idea i have been focusing on is cannibalism and birth as a symbol of fragmentation of the self. this one was relatable to me because of the mother hen's desire to contain and hold her child despite destroying it in the process correlates to the idea of cannibalism as a way of absorbing/becoming the other and therefore achieving wholeness through the process of destroying the object of desire. it also connects to the idea of the mother destroying/absorbing the child which is also about cannibalistic desires.