Our third project for Integrative Studio 1: Memory, was a three-person collaboration. We worked as a team (knowing our social styles) to create a short video. The assignment was to combine our dreams and our animal natures using multiple perspectives. We had to search our memories and seek associations and get inside the creative part of our brains.
My partners both chose cats: the tiger and the lynx– outgoing, fierce and wild creatures. I chose the horse which gave me a rather different approach. I sensed that it provided a balance between the other two.
“A Report to the Academy” by Franz Kafka, which we studied in our Seminar class made us consider more deeply what it means to be human- from the evolution of man from the ape- to the way our bodies want to deny their origins and stay separate from the animal world. I understood the author’s ironic point of view about civilization.
Below are images of us combined with our animals.
Jessica – Lynx
Me – Horse
Yanzhi – Tiger
From my research I learned that before people had the idea of utilizing and domesticating the horse, they used to raise them for food: for meat and milk. The domestication of horses radically altered travel in style and especially in time, cutting it in half.
It is hard to ignore the importance of horses in myths as well
In Greek mythology, horses had a very important meaning. The son of Poseidon (God of Sea), Pegasus, was a white horse with big white wings. It is believed that Poseidon created them from the breaking waves when he was challenged to make an animal.
To create our video, we put together a story board that included all the scenes and details. Even though it was a very rough draft, it helped us keep track of our progress, knowing what we did and what we needed to do.
All our ideas were included in a mind map, spread out on a sheet of paper. It was a useful reference at those moments when I felt stuck.
You can find our video through the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpiLZ6O6S8
