POST HUMAN - the cinema of mutations
Post Human is a pop up book about the cinema of mutations.
The choice of making a pop up book is justified by the need to involve the user himself as manipulator of the body. Pop up is above all a technique that allows you to recreate the architecture of the scene in three dimensions, it then allows to reproduce the actions of the characters, make them interact with each other.
I began my work by studying scenes and characters from the films, enriching them with my own personal interpretation, from there I began to think about the various mechanisms that allowed me to obtain the right movement. Through the different mechanisms that operate objects or characters, I responded to the need to make them interactive, each opening requires the viewer's work to function, through tabs and wheels.
I analyzed four directors who were able to enter the collective imagination, with their personal interpretation, spreading fears, anxieties, dilemmas, the products of such a difficult and uncertain poetics, such as the post-human conception. The choice is also dictated by the desire to present the different possible hybridization cases:
Taking Tod Browning with Freaks as an example to deal with an indigestible issue such as genetic anomalies, probably the only natural form of post human.
The parallelism with Lynch's Elephant man was inevitable to present two different ways of approaching the theme of two directors, disturbing and provocative in Browning, moving and compassionate in Lynch.
The contamination to which Lynch's subjects are subjected does not only concern the body but, very often, also the mind, what the visionary director deals with is the unexplored and unknowable, both physical and mental, and he does it in a truly innovative way in the film. by Eraserhead.
Cronenberg, stands in the gap between the mutation of the body and the intellectual one, in Videodrome the post-human hybridization takes place with the media, that same technology produced by man, with the car, in Crash. A theme taken up broadly by Tsukamoto who in Tetsuo has rather deepened the perfect hybridization with the machine, the metal, the last stage of man's evolutionary process.
The parallelism with Lynch's Elephant man was inevitable to present two different ways of approaching the theme of two directors, disturbing and provocative in Browning, moving and compassionate in Lynch.
The contamination to which Lynch's subjects are subjected does not only concern the body but, very often, also the mind, what the visionary director deals with is the unexplored and unknowable, both physical and mental, and he does it in a truly innovative way in the film. by Eraserhead.
Cronenberg, stands in the gap between the mutation of the body and the intellectual one, in Videodrome the post-human hybridization takes place with the media, that same technology produced by man, with the car, in Crash. A theme taken up broadly by Tsukamoto who in Tetsuo has rather deepened the perfect hybridization with the machine, the metal, the last stage of man's evolutionary process.
