Experimental Madness

Post #6
I left animation on Monday seeing dots. After three hours of what I can only describe as circles flying at me, my head was beginning to hurt. Once I had time to let the animations settle in me (and my eyes stopped feeling like shapes were attacking me), I began to be able to see all the ways experimental animation have affected and relate to none experimental.

One way I saw that the experimental animations we saw related to other things is in segments of other animated films. The one I thought of was the trippy acid section of Dumbo. The way the elephants morphed and moved in Dumbo's drunken dream reminded me of the way some the animated shapes morphed and moved about the screen. Particularly in the kaleidoscope like one.

Another thing I thought has been affected by experimental animation is music videos. The relation of many of the animations to music makes them "music videos" in some ways. I can see how the way images relate to sound effects music videos today.