Speed of Modernity
Digital Visualisation, University of Melbourne
Individual work | semester 2, 2019
A short animation reflecting on architecture,modernism and time.
Part I. Animation
Animation Footage Breakdown
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent.”
Animation Footage Sketches
--------Charles Baudelaire
The above images breaks down the 90s animation into 36 visual sequences.
Fragmenting, reversing and speeding up are the most used techniques in post-production editing to enhance the concept -- the speed of decaying. Overall, I built up 20 scenes whose orders are fragmented and rearranged in a Montage way to reconcile with the soundtrack for achieving a more sensational effect.
The concept of speed is explicitly identified with Modernism, where speed has become a necessity, a desperation, and a desire to fulfill. The film juxtaposes some of the most iconic architecture in history with an imagined, dystopian Tomorrowland, reflecting on the temporality of architecture when it’s usually perceived as a symbol of permanence and stability.
Part II. Animation Poster
