Created as part of my dissertation which is titled '‘Breathing life into an inanimate object using stop motion animation techniques’. This film is made up of 6,300 individual photographs and shot and edited in just over five weeks. Music: Steppin' Out - Electric Light Orchestra Wedding March - Mendelssohn Lullaby - Fisher-Price Lullaby Baby Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams making of: http://mechanicalsympathy.wordpress.com/

• published: 24 Mar 2011
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Created as part of my dissertation which is titled '‘Breathing life into an inanimate object using stop motion animation techniques’. This film is made up of of 6,300 individual photographs and shot and edited in just over five weeks. Music: Wedding March - Mendelssohn Lullaby - Fisher-Price Lullaby Baby Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams making of: http://mechanicalsympathy.wordpress.com/

• published: 24 Mar 2011
• views: 280

Check also out the other version of PATH OF MONEY on this channel!! THE PATH OF MONEY by Daniel Aschwanden and Peter Stamer In June 2009 we accompanied two Chinese banknotes (10 yuan and 20 yuan) on their way through China – and through theses note got acquainted with the people who were spending the money. As long as the notes were in their possession we remained with the respective owners. If they spent the banknotes, we also would swap the owner. With the help of two video cameras we recorded our encounters and, while circulating with the money from one hand to the next, we became witnesses of everyday life in China. The accompaniment of “Renminbi” - Chinese for the “people’s money” - took us four weeks and 4,000 kilometres leading us into the individual stories and value conceptions of contemporary China. Two questions arose: Where – and even more important – who actually are the people who spend this “people’s money”? The back of the 10 yuan note shows the Kuimen, the entrance to Qutang, one of the most famous of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze Kiang. Before setting off we looked for the point from which we could take a picture of the gorge exactly as it is depicted on the note. We declared this to be the starting point for our journey into Chinese everyday life - the place from which the 10 yuan note should symbolically start its course. On 11 June 2009 we and our translator Jam Pei flew from Beijing to Chongqing in the Chinese interior. A long-distance bus took us 700 kilometres to the east. In the middle of the night we got off in a village not knowing exactly where on the Yangtze Kiang we were. We showed the back of our ten yuan note to a taxi driver who nodded and drove us to the village of Baotaping. The gorge was shrouded in the thick mist of the dawn. Somewhere above the village we decided that this had to be the point with the best view. We shouldered our rucksacks, climbed up the hill and found a white-brick house. From there we had the most perfect view of the gorge, which was slowly freeing itself from the morning mist. A man came out of the entrance, light-blue shirt, short trousers, his wife behind him. We introduced ourselves to the farming couple Chen Guorong and Cai Chunming and explained the project. They found the idea amusing and offered to sell us three pounds of peaches for the ten yuan note. “Now we belong to you,” we said, as the tenner disappeared into Chen Guorong’s breast pocket. He was an orange farmer who also looked after the citrus grove planted all around the little hill. He had only moved with his family to this hill a few years ago because his wife had been given land from her parents there. He originally came from a small village upriver, which like so many others he had to leave as it was flooded in the course of the ambitious dam project of the Chinese Government. He had been promised 50,000 yuan (5,000 euro) as total financial compensation for his house and life, but he only received 15,000 yuan. When asked by us if he did not think that that was totally unfair he only shrugged his shoulders. Better than nothing, he said. The following day, three meals and many hours of conversation later, we accompanied the family with their two children along small paths through the brushwood to their grandparents’ house where the pigs had to be fed. Then Chen Guorong took us to the next town, Fengjie with the intention of “selling” us and the tenner to his cousin, a restaurant owner. However, despite hours of searching in the blazing midday heat the restaurant was not to be found. Without further ado, Chen bought three packets of chewing gum from Li Qiang instead and then took leave from us and the owner of the cigarette shop. The 10 yuan note did not remain in Li Qiang’s till for long. Almost immediately after Chen had bought his chewing gum with it the note “landed” as change in the hands of a hairdresser, who bought a bottle of mineral water respectively. From there the note - and we - changed our owners in rapid transactions for cotton buds, cigars, cigarettes, mineral water and shoes until we bumped into Zhang Qiuye in front of a shopping centre. We were just conversing with the 90-year-old shoemaker who had received the note for a pair of his raffia shoes he was selling in the street. The young woman in the yellow jumper beaming from under a purple umbrella joined in curiously and surprised us with her sudden offer. She gave the old man two five yuan notes for “our” tenner. So we came to belong to a woman in her mid twenties whom we would be accompanying for the next two-and-a-half days. She herself had come to Fengjie to find a shop to buy for her family. However, she neither knew the address and nor was she at all sure what she was looking for exactly. In Fengjie she only knew an uncle who intended to marry her off to a young man. But she was already in love with a policeman in her home city, who, however, had a wife and a

• published: 14 Mar 2011
• views: 602

Created as part of my dissertation which is titled '‘Breathing life into an inanimate object using stop motion animation techniques’. This film is made up of 6,300 individual photographs and shot and edited in just over five weeks. Music: Steppin' Out - Electric Light Orchestra Wedding March - Mendelssohn Lullaby - Fisher-Price Lullaby Baby Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams making of: http://mechanicalsympathy.wordpress.com/

• published: 24 Mar 2011
• views: 12470

Created as part of my dissertation which is titled '‘Breathing life into an inanimate object using stop motion animation techniques’. This film is made up of of 6,300 individual photographs and shot and edited in just over five weeks. Music: Wedding March - Mendelssohn Lullaby - Fisher-Price Lullaby Baby Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams making of: http://mechanicalsympathy.wordpress.com/

• published: 24 Mar 2011
• views: 280

Check also out the other version of PATH OF MONEY on this channel!! THE PATH OF MONEY by Daniel Aschwanden and Peter Stamer In June 2009 we accompanied two Chinese banknotes (10 yuan and 20 yuan) on their way through China – and through theses note got acquainted with the people who were spending the money. As long as the notes were in their possession we remained with the respective owners. If they spent the banknotes, we also would swap the owner. With the help of two video cameras we recorded our encounters and, while circulating with the money from one hand to the next, we became witnesses of everyday life in China. The accompaniment of “Renminbi” - Chinese for the “people’s money” - took us four weeks and 4,000 kilometres leading us into the individual stories and value conceptions of contemporary China. Two questions arose: Where – and even more important – who actually are the people who spend this “people’s money”? The back of the 10 yuan note shows the Kuimen, the entrance to Qutang, one of the most famous of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze Kiang. Before setting off we looked for the point from which we could take a picture of the gorge exactly as it is depicted on the note. We declared this to be the starting point for our journey into Chinese everyday life - the place from which the 10 yuan note should symbolically start its course. On 11 June 2009 we and our translator Jam Pei flew from Beijing to Chongqing in the Chinese interior. A long-distance bus took us 700 kilometres to the east. In the middle of the night we got off in a village not knowing exactly where on the Yangtze Kiang we were. We showed the back of our ten yuan note to a taxi driver who nodded and drove us to the village of Baotaping. The gorge was shrouded in the thick mist of the dawn. Somewhere above the village we decided that this had to be the point with the best view. We shouldered our rucksacks, climbed up the hill and found a white-brick house. From there we had the most perfect view of the gorge, which was slowly freeing itself from the morning mist. A man came out of the entrance, light-blue shirt, short trousers, his wife behind him. We introduced ourselves to the farming couple Chen Guorong and Cai Chunming and explained the project. They found the idea amusing and offered to sell us three pounds of peaches for the ten yuan note. “Now we belong to you,” we said, as the tenner disappeared into Chen Guorong’s breast pocket. He was an orange farmer who also looked after the citrus grove planted all around the little hill. He had only moved with his family to this hill a few years ago because his wife had been given land from her parents there. He originally came from a small village upriver, which like so many others he had to leave as it was flooded in the course of the ambitious dam project of the Chinese Government. He had been promised 50,000 yuan (5,000 euro) as total financial compensation for his house and life, but he only received 15,000 yuan. When asked by us if he did not think that that was totally unfair he only shrugged his shoulders. Better than nothing, he said. The following day, three meals and many hours of conversation later, we accompanied the family with their two children along small paths through the brushwood to their grandparents’ house where the pigs had to be fed. Then Chen Guorong took us to the next town, Fengjie with the intention of “selling” us and the tenner to his cousin, a restaurant owner. However, despite hours of searching in the blazing midday heat the restaurant was not to be found. Without further ado, Chen bought three packets of chewing gum from Li Qiang instead and then took leave from us and the owner of the cigarette shop. The 10 yuan note did not remain in Li Qiang’s till for long. Almost immediately after Chen had bought his chewing gum with it the note “landed” as change in the hands of a hairdresser, who bought a bottle of mineral water respectively. From there the note - and we - changed our owners in rapid transactions for cotton buds, cigars, cigarettes, mineral water and shoes until we bumped into Zhang Qiuye in front of a shopping centre. We were just conversing with the 90-year-old shoemaker who had received the note for a pair of his raffia shoes he was selling in the street. The young woman in the yellow jumper beaming from under a purple umbrella joined in curiously and surprised us with her sudden offer. She gave the old man two five yuan notes for “our” tenner. So we came to belong to a woman in her mid twenties whom we would be accompanying for the next two-and-a-half days. She herself had come to Fengjie to find a shop to buy for her family. However, she neither knew the address and nor was she at all sure what she was looking for exactly. In Fengjie she only knew an uncle who intended to marry her off to a young man. But she was already in love with a policeman in her home city, who, however, had a wife and a

• published: 14 Mar 2011
• views: 602