Architectural Form in Motion Graphics

This paper explores the use of the wipe, a transition, as an architectural space within motion graphics production. Exploring ideas from zen, and Japanese Poetry, expanding on the notion of the ‘pivot word’ in Japanese literature, exploring the 25 frame wipe, as an architectural, navigational device, within time and space. Taking the idea of the chronotope from Bakhtin, a time-space device, and precendents from the work of Samuel Beckett, literature including poetic form, and the structure of the traditional Japanese Nō Drama. I will introduce my current project - Recipes for Baking Bread as an exploration into the navigation of time and space, using the wipe as a transition from early Ukrainian histories in the 1930’s, and the present day, architecture in production, and contemporary work including Max Hattler, the poetry of Rilke, Tal Rosner, and Simon Faithful.