Consider The End is a short experimental animation about all the deaths that I witnessed, from age 7 to 31.
This film serves as a poetic clue, showing the viewer, the filmmaker's personal life, and at the same time revealing particular details about the era and the situation that a generation of people grew up in. Consider The End reveals its purpose almost immediately; at its most basic level, it is a psychological projection to reflect the time and life of an individual.
Consider The End is an effort to create a relationship between personal and collective memory. I am largely present in this film, maximizing my appearance through voice-over, re-telling of intimate events, and digging up the past. Although personal, this is not a film solely about "me". It engages the notion of ageing, it is a window to the past of a nation and documentation of a diminishing regime.
Similar to my previous film, Drawn from Memory, I used hand-drawn animation to depict the film. After some trial and error, I realized drawing by hand adds a dynamic dimension to the work. It is a still image, but there is also movement involved in it; in a way, the notion of photographic stillness is blended with cinematic motion. For the final chapter of the film, I used videos from Super 8 vintage Cameras, mostly archival home movies. Almost every person that we see in these videos is dead by now. This was an effort to pinpoint something that is decaying in the present but once was alive and full of life, and that period of aliveness, that past, always remains intact in time. I tried to resurrect that passed with a combination of vintage videos and a poem by Allen Ginsberg called "Father Death Blues."
This film serves as a poetic clue, showing the viewer, the filmmaker's personal life, and at the same time revealing particular details about the era and the situation that a generation of people grew up in. Consider The End reveals its purpose almost immediately; at its most basic level, it is a psychological projection to reflect the time and life of an individual.
Consider The End is an effort to create a relationship between personal and collective memory. I am largely present in this film, maximizing my appearance through voice-over, re-telling of intimate events, and digging up the past. Although personal, this is not a film solely about "me". It engages the notion of ageing, it is a window to the past of a nation and documentation of a diminishing regime.
Similar to my previous film, Drawn from Memory, I used hand-drawn animation to depict the film. After some trial and error, I realized drawing by hand adds a dynamic dimension to the work. It is a still image, but there is also movement involved in it; in a way, the notion of photographic stillness is blended with cinematic motion. For the final chapter of the film, I used videos from Super 8 vintage Cameras, mostly archival home movies. Almost every person that we see in these videos is dead by now. This was an effort to pinpoint something that is decaying in the present but once was alive and full of life, and that period of aliveness, that past, always remains intact in time. I tried to resurrect that passed with a combination of vintage videos and a poem by Allen Ginsberg called "Father Death Blues."
Production year: 2023
Roles: Director, Animator
Runtime: 00:28:23
Animation, 16:9, Stereo
Roles: Director, Animator
Runtime: 00:28:23
Animation, 16:9, Stereo
