Master Of Animation, Games & Interactivity
Master Of Animation, Games & Interactivity

In response to the theme of Object Oriented Ontolology, I made a video using my phone and Premiere.

By showing various cases of blutack working and not working I exaggerated the relationship between the wall, the blutack and the artwork/poster. Almost every day I come home to find that blutack has decided it is sick of displaying certain objects in my room, while it always keeps certain pieces up.

To be honest, I am still confused about this week's theme. I can see this video being humourously viewed as the blutack being an art critic, unwilling to display certain pieces. But am I not then anthropomorphising the blutack? I don't know. Either way, the relationship is such that the blutack holds some things up and drops others. No one knows why.

I was thinking a lot about ghost stories when making this, and especially anything caught on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amA6LQh8CfQ. I have heard stories of people coming home to find the paintings they have hung now laying on the ground, and then blaming a ghost. As I am terrified of ghosts, I blame the fallen artwork on the critical blutack, much cuter than a ghost.

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By Harry Hughes
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Published On: 02/04/2020