Watch Pjotr Sapegin’s Madama Butterfly animation and comment about it. This was this weeks assignment for my ART211 class.
It was extremely well done for a stop motion short film. The most care in crafting seemed to be put into the female doll, while the male was literally a Ken doll with a different head. Scenery was simplified but still helped tell the story. It relied heavily on metaphors and symbolism because there was no speaking. The symbolism of everything in the end literally broke your heart as you watched it and could genuinely feel as the doll did and wanted to rip yourself apart with heartache.
I enjoyed watching it and would definitely recommend it to others. It's a visual animation of a Opera that is tragic and deep and beautiful. I don't want to give to many spoilers away. It takes place during a war when Americans would go to foreign countries and get the local girls pregnant and leave, some would come back just to take the children away leaving the mothers behind. Thats what this Opera tells in great detail. It really hits you with the animation and the emotion it can make you feel without a single voice and some facial expressions from the dolls.
Since this is an Art and Technology course you can see where both have combined to create the film. The dolls and scenery and even music playing are the art while how it is shown to us and how everything is made and put together is the technology. It combined beautifully to make this piece.
Link to the short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxB4QecL2r0
It was extremely well done for a stop motion short film. The most care in crafting seemed to be put into the female doll, while the male was literally a Ken doll with a different head. Scenery was simplified but still helped tell the story. It relied heavily on metaphors and symbolism because there was no speaking. The symbolism of everything in the end literally broke your heart as you watched it and could genuinely feel as the doll did and wanted to rip yourself apart with heartache.
I enjoyed watching it and would definitely recommend it to others. It's a visual animation of a Opera that is tragic and deep and beautiful. I don't want to give to many spoilers away. It takes place during a war when Americans would go to foreign countries and get the local girls pregnant and leave, some would come back just to take the children away leaving the mothers behind. Thats what this Opera tells in great detail. It really hits you with the animation and the emotion it can make you feel without a single voice and some facial expressions from the dolls.
Since this is an Art and Technology course you can see where both have combined to create the film. The dolls and scenery and even music playing are the art while how it is shown to us and how everything is made and put together is the technology. It combined beautifully to make this piece.
Link to the short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxB4QecL2r0
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