10 SECOND POETRY_experiments

  • Maki Ota
London is home to a diverse range of people including immigrants and tourists. This melting pot creates a fusion of various personal expressions and interactions with others. However, the hyper-pace at which the city is driven often means we quickly pass by these moments as a crowd. The work captures every detail of the subject’s movement by tracing film stills frame by frame, also known as rotoscope animation. It engages the viewer with a brief but nuanced way form of visual storytelling and essentially gives lens of re-discovering our elaborate everyday performance.