This short animated film is directed by Stig Bergquist, Jonas Odell, Martti Ekstrand & Lars Ohlson. Produced in 1994, digitally restored by the Swedish Film Institute in 2018.

Categorisation: 2D animation, Experimental animation.

Form and Function: The consciousness translated from this short film is a merry-go-round, in which a large number of short clips of repetition are used, and then suddenly stop with time. The carousel is a loop, like going to an amusement park and going round and round, but it ends at a certain point in time. The constant repetition and sudden stop in the animation are like the endless pressure and powerlessness of life, and the sudden stop and switch will give people a new cycle to start. Over and over again.

Content: ‘People struggling in the water, dry land fish struggling on the shore, this is 1798…
Human-faced sea creature body embryos are sorted by a seemingly evil person in a “thing” that appears to be harvested or produced on an assembly line. Monkey-like creatures operating underwater machines It’s 1837…’—Just one piece

Formal Elements: This work uses black and white colors throughout the whole process, without using bright colors, to create a serious atmosphere for the audience, forming an invisible pressure. Coupled with the loop in the animation, it gives a sense of powerlessness. The background music is a single beat, which forms a good echo with the picture and content.

Personal feelings: What he presents is a sense of familiarity, the anxiety that we have experienced in our lives and have not experienced premonitions is embodied in the form of animation, so there is a sense of familiarity, people can continue to live, not only have these negative emotions, but also many happy moments, so they have been alive.

The abstraction in the animation gives the audience infinite imagination space, different people will have different feelings to watch, the above is only my personal opinion, welcome to comment.