Animator Rosa Aiello on Sand and Surrender

This is a guest post by Rosa Aiello, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.

Notes for a blog post (surrender to materials):

• Objects have a life of their own
• Flight, the feeling that something is behind you, a person or a place, perpetual turning back
• Elephant man, exile, an inanimate man breaks down
• Secret in a container, something valuable or something forbidden
• One answer to a mystery, if more than one answer or no answers, then not a mystery, just speculating
• The movement of sand, the formation of mountains, a moral geology, ethics of fluidVortex, vertiginous hole, snake hole
• A history that repeats