記起、回顧、賦形、喚生…
- Lilian Fu
In many ways, animation and recollection have strong affinities and may form the most interesting assemblages. The initial meaning of the word ‘animation’, which comes from its Latin root, anima, is to give life to a dead object. Memory in a way shares the same function of animated pictures. When we talk about or commemorate a person, we are ‘giving life’ to him/her in new ways through imagination, filling in the missing parts by making up new stories or adding in new elements from hearsay.
The similarities between animation and recollection give my project, Imagining My Grandmother (2010), a bit of irony because to some extend, I am giving a new life to my grandmother who is no longer alive, by …
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