This was really just a presentation on a chosen film - having been given a lecture on the scales of abstraction, we had to pick a film that we could judge on those pointers. It didn't have to fit every criteria and it didn't have to go to the extremes of that criteria either - it was more about understanding WHY it's abstract or orthodox.
The scale pointers were -
Configuration - Abstraction
Specific Continuity - Specific Non-Continuity
Narrative Form - Interpretive Form
Evolution of Content - Evolution of Materiality
Unity of Style - Multiple Styles
Absence of Artist - Presence of Artist
Dynamics of Dialogue - Dynamics of Musicality
For this presentation we chose the film 'Tongue of the Hidden' - A poem recited in duel languages with the majority of the 'characters' created from Persian script. While it didn't tick every single 'experimental animation' box, we felt it a good example of a film that implemented many abstract techniques and styles. The artist is present in that the film is started off with them writing/drawing the first character and that it's written text not made to look like real animals etc. Also, the characters are extracted from their original 'real' form - yet still are understandable as what they are meant to represent. On narrative form, it's fairly linear in that both visuals and audio follow a set storyline and complement each other.
This film is definitely a help in convincing me that there is more to experimental/orthodox animation than just two extremes. It's perfectly well and good to create your film anywhere on those scales as long as it was intentional and you can explain why.
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