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My Walls (2016) | Red Room Collection

This is the second entry in my series of experimental self-expression films I started when I was 15, The Red Room Collection. This time taking place in an actual red room! I made this video with my friend in literature-class! On a day where I was sick, the class was supposed to write a poem about the color red, and then act it out in a play later. Since I hadn't written a poem, I asked if I could make a short film instead! I had watched a bunch of David Firth stuff beforehand, so I really wanted to try and make an "animation" in his style. I came up with a story, and storyboarded it with my friend in class. Then I spent a day making the drawings on paper and scanned them in digitally, while my friend worked on the music. One day before we had to hand in the assignment, I spent all night doing the voiceover and editing all my little drawings together haha. The squiggly subtitles are new for this version, since I thought they'd be a good fit and the picture is pretty static most of the time anyways. I don't know how well they came out, but I do really like the more animated ones when you see the assembly line for the first time. Alright so what the HECK is this about? Back when I wrote it, it was supposed to be about creativity. The apple was supposed to represent the act of creating a piece of art, starting out from a place of passion and fun, but getting frustrated and stressed about it the more you do it. It was something I struggled with a lot (and still do), where I am really passionate about my ideas but actually making them can be so stressful and exhausting it almost hurts. A lot of the time I want to quit, and this story was supposed to tell me: Keep doing it, even if it hurts. Ironically I wanted to not finish this film while I made it, and only because my friend kicked my ass telling me I had to finish it, was it actually completed. Nowadays, I see this much more as a story about being trans and neurodivergent, like a lot of my high school movies. I don't understand other people to the point that they can seem like alien bug creatures to me, but I tried really hard to make myself adapt and become "normal" like them, and it was one of the worst things I've ever done to myself. I am glad that I escaped that shell and set out for the journey of embracing who I really am, even if it is hard and confusing and sometimes really hurts. But this film can really be about anything that is fun or passionate or beautiful turning into something painful or hard, and how we should not give up on it right away because of that. It's a very crappy, very rushed and cheaply made video, but I do kinda like it. It succeeded in creating an actually strange and uncomfortable atmosphere, and I like the little voice I did for the struggling character. I would like to try this papercut-style of animation again in the future, so here's hoping with more time it comes out more fleshed out than this! Thank you for watching and reading, the next entry in the Red Room Collection will be a live-action short film called "Missed Call", made in 2017.