Visual Arts and Film Studies imagination

Project description
using descriptive detail and examples from the films.

Taking the films in Module 4 as resources [Alice in Wonderland (1951; 2010), Jan Svankmayer’s Alice (1988), Le Congrès (2013), and Spirited Away (2001)] develop a working definition of Imagination.

Some cultural comparison/contrast should be a necessary part of your answer to this question, as the three cultures represented in the films are different. How does culture influence the way we see a universal topic such as Imagination?

Also, I want you to respond to this discussion:

aking the films in Module 4 as resources [Alice in Wonderland (1951; 2010), Jan Svankmayer’s Alice (1988), Le Congrès (2013), and Spirited Away (2001)] develop a working definition of Imagination.

Alice in Wonderland (1951 and 2010) are great examples of imagination. They are stories alike and so different because of the culture of the society that is making those films. For example, the 1951 Alice is sweet, innocent, and still much a child. Her imagination is all dream. The animation fits the dream style in the sweet and safe characters. However, the 2010 Alice is struggling to be something she is not; a clueless child. She has lost her father who may be the only person who understands her in that society. She has strong personality and is confused with the death of her father on how to now follow what she knows. Her imagionation part of the film is actuality for her. The alter-reality that she goes to is filled with nightmarish forms that help her subconscious self become her conscious self. She regains her courage and determination. In this version of Alice, the format is filled with oddly shaped characters, language, and prophesy. The imagery in the 1988 Svankmayer’s Alice is too much for my brain to get hold of. I do not see anything of childhood in this except a too quiet girl with very little reactions.

Spirited away is filled with cultural data as well as imagination. Kami are the spirits around the world, according to Shinto religion. In the film they do not appear until they drift off the boat onto the land where the bathhouse sits. Even then they are cloaked and masked. This leaves much for the viewer to determine. In regards to Chihiro, she is lost in this land. The impression is that she has very little knowledge of the spiritual world around her. This is a comment on the current condition of the society. The imagination sets free for the development of the characters because this is a dreamlike land of myth and belief.

Le Congres (2013) is by Ari Folman. In this the viewer gets to discover many ways to be someone else. However, the other view is of the person who’s look is being used. What makes us unique if we can be anything? Do we really get to do anything as someone else, or do we bring our individual views to that avatar? This is part of the imagination that is being examined.

Culture does change the way that imagination is used in films. Sweet, scary, believable and outrageous situations can occur; all depending on the culture that is bringing the film. This shows in the Alice and Wonderland versions, Spirited Away, and Le Congres.

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