The bibliographies I chose were about animators depicted the absurdity among our life, which was kind of black humour. Animator reveals ironic social behaviour by using gags and exaggerated figures. Michaela’s works had the spirits of black humour. In my essay, I plan to explain how Michaela’s Words Words Words condensed several relationships in a ‘theatre space’, a bar. Additionally, how Michaela just used image to make audience understand the intension of figures and dynamic relationship.
Words Words Words is a delicate film to depict society with metaphor and symbol. Also, in Understanding Animation (Wells, 1998), Wells provided a way to analysis the narrative strategies of animation, such as metaphor and symbolism.
Bibliography
How Michaela Pavlatova both incorporates and rebels against the Czech animation tradition by Miriam Harris
“She (Pavlatova) collapses the decorum that surrounds social niceties, revealing the dark urges within us all, and the truth to Freud’s insight that tendentious humor reveals repressed drives that are considered taboo…Words, Words, Words is indeed chock-full with examples of a visual ‘language’ that require the audience’s interaction and interpretation, and the film itself is a poignant and hilarious study of the human need to interact.”
Understanding Animation by Paul Wells
“This depressing scenario, they imply, can only be accepted if it is perceived in the spirit of black humour, recognising the absurdity of ever-repeating patterns of behaviour, and, inappropriate notions of order and routine as they are determined by hierarchical power structures in society. All this seems a long way from Felix, but the minimalist inflections of absurdist theatre (a recognition of the ‘theatre’ space and convention in itself, the use of a few props or settings, primarily for symbolic purposes, etc.) echoed the graphic conception and freedom of expression in cartoon films and the use of the ‘gag’ as a radical device to reveal or disrupt behavioural and environmental orthodoxies. “