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Acquiesce is a short animated film made from paper sheets, laid over a light box. The story follows a lonely cosmonaut returning to Earth, where life has been diminished by sheer white-hot light. The cosmonaut must face these conditions under the shadow of his space craft door, to traverse the vast emptiness. Before long, his efforts to evade danger lead him to rest in the clutches of unknown darkness.
This photo is a single frame from the dream sequence in the film. Out cosmonaut falls to sleep and dreams about being cocooned in a white light that devours him. There is a coffee stain and the page numbers faintly visible in the corner, which would've made a cameo for 1/8 of a second in the original film.
As the film was completed for a gallery exhibition, a poster was made to direct the viewers to see the preview. The white box in the bottom right hand corner is often edited, to display where the latest public screening will take place. On other days, it displays a concise blurb of the film.
This still shows the different layers of paper used to create our animated film. The black layer is a carbon sheet with a drawn image penciled onto it, then cut out. The grey layer is a sheet of recycled white paper, cut through the middle and around the crest of the hatch door. The white layer is the light box without any paper covering it. The paper layers would be replaced and re-used to create a looped walk cycle.
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