1′
Experimental Animation
720p – 16:9 – 24fps
2023
Direction, Animation, Photography
Jaron KUEHMSTEDT
Lok Tung KWAN Tate
Hiu Yin TSE Aster
Shuxin WANG Yan
Sound Recoding
Hiu Yin TSE Aster
Shuxin WANG Yan
Sound Design
Lok Tung KWAN Tate
Shuxin WANG Yan
Editing
Shuxin WANG Yan
Advisor
Max HATTLER
When looked at closely, the urban environment of the city that surrounds us every day turns into an abstract place as it is removed from its public and functional context. In this short animation, urban shapes, colors, textures, and ordinary objects become recontextualized in a composition of abstract visuals and sounds. The chaos of the city is the central theme the animation is built upon. New patterns and visual connections are found in ordinary and usually invisible elements we pass on a daily basis. The aim is to provide a new look at the city and the urban environment and open up a fresh and playful perspective on the way the urban space can be perceived. This different kind of seeing allows for reimagination and rediscovery of the city as if seeing it for the first time again. The soundtrack consisting of a mix of location and optical sound translates this element of abstraction and rediscovery to the audible level. A combination of After Effects, Procreate, and Stop Motion Studio were used to create this animation frame by frame.
