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My project

My thesis is about time, and how can people be present in their own lives if they are most of their time mentally away, thinking of the future (problems to be solve, things that they have to do), or remembering the past.

Life Definition: The physical, mental, and spiritual experiences that constitute existence.

Based on the definition that living is not more than those little moments that people enjoy, and that there are aware of, and the idea that living is being here now, I believe that some times we are not “living”, because most of us lose our time, and spend our lives thinking of our past, or planning our future. At the end all of this makes us neglect ourselves, because we are missing out on the things that truly makes life meaningful.

What made me want to do this project?

There are various reasons why I wanted to do this project. It all started on a train. In the spring of 2006, while I was commuting from home to school, seating on the train, facing on the opposite direction that the train was going, as usual, there was a window, which was working as a mirror. I realized that I was looking at things that were coming, but at the same time, I was watching the path that I had already past. I was in a timeless moment. I was living past, future and present at the same time. But I was not living, I was just watching. The movement, and the idea of me been static, made me realize that I was just being a spectator of my own life.

I think that my work could be called “wake up and live”, because it’s like you are sleeping inside in a bubble, without realizing of what is happening around you. It is like your there but you’re not.

Major Inspiration

NY street music
Movies:
Yellow Submarine
Unfortunated events

My story

I end up doing an animation of a curious little girl who loves music. One day she gets out of the house and falls into some sort of time travel tunnel and becomes and adult. There she is faced with the idea of being trap by a bubble full of thoughts about, about problems (present and future), that don’t let her enjoy the things that she used to enjoy before.