“In response to the week’s theme of discussions of place, I made a short animation that shows the organisation and colour coordination of a bookshelf, using traditional stop motion techniques. By creating movement amongst the books I was able to depict them as characters living in a bookshelf, which became the ‘place’ within the work. The inclusion of people within the animation further emphasise the idea of books being characters, as they were still in the background as people passed by, then came to life when no one is around. Similar themes are present in Segundo de Chomón's work El Hotel Eléctrico in which stop motion is used to bring an inanimate object to life (Mercer 2008).”
Mercer, L 2008, Fear at the hands of technology: The proto-Surrealism of the sims of Segundo de Chomn, Intellect, United Kingdom.
Segundo de Chomón's El Hotel Eléctrico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzru63JBSE
Final Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk7hXO-7cyY