A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.
The film explores our perception of time, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.
Director, Animator & Sound Design: Michelle Brand
Sound Mix and Additional Sound Design: Ed Rousseau
Colouring Assistants: Jiaqi Wang, Leo Metcalf, Agata Leniartek, Paige Anderson, Jordan Brunton, Megan Earls, Liang-Hsin Huang
Awards:
Rhode Island International Film Festival – Grand Prize, Best Experimental
Rhode Island International Film Festival – Grand Prize, Best Animation
AEAF Awards – Silver Award for Student Film
Selected Film Festivals/Screenings:
Flatpack Film Festival 2020, 1-17 May (Online)
Monstra Animation Festival 2020, 1-7 June (Online)
Annecy 2020, 15-30 June (Online)
Palm Springs Shortfest, 17 June (Online)
Animator (Unscreened Programme), 10 July
Rhode Island International Film Festival 2020, 04-09 August (Online)
Animation Block Party Film Festival 2020 (Online), 22-23 August
Fest Anca 2020, 27-30 August
Cardiff Animation Nights 2020 (Online), 27 August
Encounters 2020 (Online), 18 September – 11 October
Anifilm 2020, 6-11 October
Behind the Scenes:
michellebrandanimation.com/any-instant-whatever
michellebrandanimation.com/any-instant-whatever-procedural-paintings
Press Kit:
michellebrandanimation.com/any-instant-whatever-press-kit
Everything around us, including our bodies and our ‘self’ is constantly moving, changing and transforming, and yet we can only comprehend time by dividing it up into static differences, only making the before and after visible. The complete flow of transitions remains incomprehensible to us.
Animation as a medium is the perfect tool to explore such philosophical ideas about time, movement and change – we seem to perceive movement through still images, yet each frame remains invisible to our eye. The film is a visual and conceptual journey, where time and movement become, alongside with the image itself, just another coordinate to abstract and experiment with. The room, the man, the film – everything moves and becomes one changing entity until it all dissolves and deconstructs completely, leaving only movement behind.
Paint on Cells, Paint on Paper, Mixed Media,
MA Graduation Film, Royal College of Art, 2019
