Memory: a Library in Alphabetical Disorder

In project 'Memory: a Library in Alphabetical Disorder' I attempted to explore an alternative way of digital storytelling which operates with the visual language of graphic novels – an animated storytelling.

My intent was to communicate a story of my family (it’s female line) through the medium of hand-drawn motion. The process of memory is shown not as a static visual but an animated one. The animations are subtle with a minimum of movement, animated step by step.

“...for every child, one way or another, repeats his parents’ progress. I could argue that, after all,one wants to learn from one’s parents about one’s own future, one’s own ageing; one wants to learn from them also the ultimate lesson: how to die.” J. Brodsky

(Brodsky, Joseph, In a Room and a Half, in: Less Then One, Selected Essays, Penguin Classics, London, 2011)

Title: quote by Joseph Brodsky, Music: Colleen, "Everyone Alive Wants Answer"