The Appliance Of Science
THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE
Commissioned by Joan Gratz | Directed by Martin Cooper | Animated by Parham Ghalamdar | Edited by Adrian Storey a.k.a. Uchujin
Parham Ghalamdar was commissioned to animate for the short film The Appliance Of Science, directed by film maker Martin Cooper and funded by the oscar-winning animator Joan Gratz in 2022.
Joan Gratz
Joan Gratz is an Academy Award winning director of animated short films and commercials. Her films range in content through painterly expressions of poetry, improvised abstraction, and animated social documentary. The technique she pioneered is “claypainting.”
Synopsis
The film "The Appliance of Science" is part of a collection of 8 short films titled "One Minute Mistake," commissioned by Joan Gratz. In the making of this mutant silent movie, filmmaker Martin Cooper carefully considered how to incorporate animations into the live-action sequence. Drawing inspiration from the Surrealist movement, which emerged during the height of the silent film era, Cooper proposed a mix of iconic Surrealist images and conventional visual elements to Ghalamdar, resulting in a series of short animations.
Still images
