This week focused on experimental animation, exploring how abstraction, form, and movement can communicate ideas without relying on traditional narrative structures. We looked at how early avant-garde filmmakers challenged mainstream cinema by prioritising colour, rhythm, light, sound, and motion to create sensory and emotional responses.
We studied pioneering experimental works and techniques such as cameraless filmmaking, sound-image relationships, and non-dialogued films. These approaches highlighted how process and medium can become part of the message, encouraging personal vision and experimentation beyond commercial constraints.
This session helped me understand how experimental animation expands film language and how abstraction can still convey meaning through visual and emotional impact rather than story alone.