He Almost Clutched his Hand

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He Almost Clutched his Hand

• The Medium is the Message
• Possible Questions to ask of the animation

By Gerrit van Dijk??.?.??, Holland, 1982
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Stages of his life

• Early childhood
• Outside world
• School
• Buy a pair of shoes
• College life
• Career
• The end

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The things he sees experiences

• Indoor The light, the mothers nipple and the
  fathers button pet dogs of plastic

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Outside World

• cherries, dogs, wheelbarrow, another
  wheelbarrow with four wheels . . ..

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Social roles (seen with eyeglasses)

• School master, doctors, pharmacist, ladies and
  gents, dollars and cents.

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Schools ? photos
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College life

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His father

• grows silent.

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One thing he remembers

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Career Cannot help himself doing

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Reminiscence

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The end

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Possible Questions to ask of the animation

• Author How do we deal with the identity of
  he? Is he the animator? The speaker?
• Why are there so many ways of representing the
  self? Do you find any intertextual references?
  
• Are there conflicting messages? What are
  missing from his life story?

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Intertextual references

• light
• pop arist (or Beetles?)
• Rene Margrite, Salome
• newspaper, books, television, radio, alphabet
  board
• Dutch landscape (or some ones painting?)
• Shoes van Goghs and Star Dust Shoes
• Elm wood

Oscar Wilde dressed as Salome
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The Conflicting or Repressed

• Structure from wonder to knowledge to wealth
  and then return ? loves the old things and the
  old people that have passed like ships in the
  night.
• the central moment of love (happy talk about new
  shoes in summer vs. distance and an autumnal
  leaf,) vs. the passing of time (like a fearful
  storm)
• the mother? Kuwait? Salome?

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Gerrit van Dijk

• ONE-ON-ONE (animation online ) http//www.niaf.nl/
  e_ind_main.htm
• Other work
• I MOVE, SO I AM 8' 20"
• Written and directed by Gerrit van Dijk - 1997
• Director Gerrit van Dijk states "I move, so I
  am", a free interpretation of Descartes quotation
  "I think, so I am", is my credo
  to express myself on celluloid. "I am not
  shooting pictures, I animate....".