118. Secret Passages

Norman McLaren said that “animation is not the art of drawings that move, but the art of movements that are drawn. "What happens between each frame is much more important than what is in each frame." What would we see, then, if we could stop the time between frame and frame? How are these invisible interstices manipulated, this other dimension parallel to the images?

Elena Duque, filmmaker and professor specialized in experimental animation, proposes a journey that begins in the first decade of the 20th century, with the first animation studies, and takes us to the work of analog experimental animation through the analysis of a series of films created by internationally recognized artists.

"Experimental animation is a practice in which the way things are done is often the backbone of the films: our invisible interstice between the frames, where animators work tirelessly; that parallel universe from which new moving images for the world emerge."