Motion Graphics course - AUB
This is the opening sequence for a series based on Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea. This existential novel revolves around the protagonist's idea of being horrified by his own existence and is written in the form of a diary. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."
The visual style of this work was inspired by the idea of the colour red - signifying life and the people - and the colour black - which signifies him and his thoughts of death and nausea-. The concept of the spread of the ink and the opposing use of thin lines all portray the psychological struggle and the emotion behind Sartre's major novel. The musical piece used is from Sophie Tucker's signature song "Some of These Days"; this song comes up in the book multiple times and is, for the protagonist, a solace and a door to freedom, in which this music cures his existential horror and his nausea (Sartre called jazz "the music of the future").
