Rock and Fish

Synopsis  
At the bottom of an ocean, a rock and a fish are at rest. To be a rock and maintain as a rock, the rock is in activity. Even the fish, at rest as the rock, is in activity to remain as the fish. The fish ceases only when the fish ceases to be and the rock too. The rock looks like a fish and vice versa.  
Technique: Charcoal on paper 
Duration: 3:20 min
Year: 2023 

Rock and Fish: Motion as the Actuality of a Potentiality by Aristotle   

To be a thing in this world is to be at work and to be at an end. Both words are synonyms in Aristotle´s scheme. To say that something is in motion is to say that it is both what it is already and something else that it is not yet. So, motion is the actuality of something which has potential.   

Rock and Fish aims to explore and expand the concept of Moving Hold (the slight bit of motion a character has while it is in a pose) in conventional Frame-by-Frame method. In this work, I tried to find an alternative meaning and effect of Moving Hold by adopting Aristotle’s two words: active potentiality and inactive potentiality.  

In an aspect, animation on screen is a combination of visual elements which communicates to audience by symbol languages. Those elements are signals in the social world that can be meaningfully interpreted. The conventional Moving hold can be seen merely as a means to avoid a total absence of movement but do not give any new information or create a meaningful motion to the audience. The audience notices the motion only because of the optical response. Rock and Fish aims to optimise the meaning of the Moving Hold technique which potentially gives to the audience and challenges the idea of an objective sense of visual representation.  

Credit 

Animation l Thanut Rujitanont 
Sound l Methas Chantawongs 
Text Design l Noppakun Khunrach 
Supporter l Aalto University 
Producer l Graphy Animation 

Reference  

Joe Sachs, Aristotle: Motion, https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle-motion/