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Rorschach (2002)

16mm, b/w, silent, 7:00, 2002

Rorschach is a 16mm black and white animated film which uses a laborious and intensive process of drawing to create a cyclical narrative of images and texts motivated by considerations of exile and displacement. A Rorschach test, judged poorly, can have terrible results, affecting a psychological assessment and the course someone's life might take. The banalities of an immigration document can mean whether or not a person can stay or leave a country that has become a new home. And even the most banal of texts, a fortune cookie, could be a motivation for someone to make life-changing decisions.
Rorschach ends with a fanfare of fortunes, followed by a sequence of receipt animations, documents of a specific life in a specific place between the now-historic months of September 2001 and December 2001, the end of a year we wish had not occurred, which imposed such drastic changes on mobility and civil liberties throughout the world.

Rorschach Drawings
Charcoal, graphite and ink on paper, 2002

 

Rorschach (2002)

16mm, b/w, silent, 7:00, 2002

Rorschach is a 16mm black and white animated film which uses a laborious and intensive process of drawing to create a cyclical narrative of images and texts motivated by considerations of exile and displacement. A Rorschach test, judged poorly, can have terrible results, affecting a psychological assessment and the course someone's life might take. The banalities of an immigration document can mean whether or not a person can stay or leave a country that has become a new home. And even the most banal of texts, a fortune cookie, could be a motivation for someone to make life-changing decisions.
Rorschach ends with a fanfare of fortunes, followed by a sequence of receipt animations, documents of a specific life in a specific place between the now-historic months of September 2001 and December 2001, the end of a year we wish had not occurred, which imposed such drastic changes on mobility and civil liberties throughout the world.

Rorschach Drawings
Charcoal, graphite and ink on paper, 2002

 

Rorschach

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