Some of My Youth is a short animation focused on the notion of the collective unconscious. A term that was coined by Carl Jung to represent a form of the unconscious, common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain. It is distinct from the personal unconscious, which arises from the experience of the individual. Similar to this notion, Some of My Youth is mostly the manifestation of daydreaming and wishful thinking. It's the demonstration of a happy night in my life that never occurred in reality, However, I was eager to create and present it to the audience as a factual event. It never came into existence in my life, but It did in my daydreams (as a collective memory) and I dared to represent it as a factual event.
Some of My Youth is my continued exploration of "Home Movies". A short amateur film or video is typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and is intended for viewing at home by family and friends. films that at first glance, are captured for personal use and seem to be completely irrelevant for strangers, however by viewing a video documented scene of a family reunion or a simple event such as a picnic in the park, they evoke the same memories that I had with my relatives in a certain age. André Bazin suggests the family albums and their relation with memory and time:
"The disturbing presence of lies halted at a set moment in their duration, freed from their destiny; not, however, by the prestige of art but by the power of an impassive mechanical process: for photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption." (Bazin 2005:198)
I believe that If we liberate the (moving) image from all aspects of authorship, such as visual effects, colour correction, music etc., we might end up with footage that is a pure reference to an experience of the spectators, a memory, frozen in time, conjured by the image. An empty space where one is finally free from any movement, and can gaze away from the image, into one's mind. Therefore, memory can stir or halt movement, depending on the method and strategy by which it has been triggered.
Some of My Youth is my continued exploration of "Home Movies". A short amateur film or video is typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and is intended for viewing at home by family and friends. films that at first glance, are captured for personal use and seem to be completely irrelevant for strangers, however by viewing a video documented scene of a family reunion or a simple event such as a picnic in the park, they evoke the same memories that I had with my relatives in a certain age. André Bazin suggests the family albums and their relation with memory and time:
"The disturbing presence of lies halted at a set moment in their duration, freed from their destiny; not, however, by the prestige of art but by the power of an impassive mechanical process: for photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption." (Bazin 2005:198)
I believe that If we liberate the (moving) image from all aspects of authorship, such as visual effects, colour correction, music etc., we might end up with footage that is a pure reference to an experience of the spectators, a memory, frozen in time, conjured by the image. An empty space where one is finally free from any movement, and can gaze away from the image, into one's mind. Therefore, memory can stir or halt movement, depending on the method and strategy by which it has been triggered.
Production year: 2023
Roles: Director, Animator
Runtime: 00:11:05
Animation, 16:9, Stereo
Roles: Director, Animator
Runtime: 00:11:05
Animation, 16:9, Stereo
