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Like many pop-song lyrics, is so vague that it is very possible to project all kinds of meanings onto it, and feel all kinds of feelings that might or might not have been intended by the writers. I think that The Wall was constructed as an album in the first place, not as a film. But our painterly animation definitely feels dreamy and strange and helps the audience to catch a glimpse of Kurt CobainвЂ™s rich, self-pitying inner life, just as The Wall helped us get into the head of Floyd. We couldnвЂ™t be too psychedelic, so the animation couldnвЂ™t be as wild as The Wall. The coming-of-age story that Kurt Cobain told was so similar to my own adolescent past that I felt very comfortable animating it. When he saw my film Junkyard, he thought that my grim and realistic animations would complement Kurt CobainвЂ™s character very well. Since it was just audio, director Brett Morgen needed visuals that would both enhance and counter-narrate these fragments. It seemed to give a very unique insight into his troubled character. The story he told was a typical coming-of-age story, which showed his insecurities, his depression, his marijuana use, his struggles in life, and even his early suicidal thoughts. The difference was that we were trying to capture the inner life of a real person - namely Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain - and not that of a fictional person, as is the case in The Wall.ДЇor Montage of Heck, we had eight minutes of audio on a cassette tape, with sound collages and stories that Kurt Cobain recorded aged 20. On Montage of Heck, we realized of course that we were doing something comparable to The Wall, in that we were integrating animation into live action. See and feel what she sees and feels, through animation. Our goal was to take the audience on a trip with Alma.

If we had filmed it as a live-action series, there would be a clear distinction between reality and all the weird trippy stuff happening, which would create a clear distance between us and Alma. This could not be done without animation. It is never completely clear to the audience whether we are on a trip in AlmaвЂ™s head, who might be suffering from schizophrenia, or if we are actually watching reality. The world feels very real, but also unreal, dreamy, and painterly. We film the actors first, then trace them and place them in an oil-painted world. In Undone it works in a really strange way, because the actors are rotoscoped.

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I used animation to depict psychosis and delusions in my short films Seventeen and Junkyard, and in the Amazon series Undone (with showrunners Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg). But I found out through The Wall, and other animated films, that animation is also an excellent medium for blurring the barriers between dream and reality and showing the inner world of a character. I would say that most animation is made for family entertainment and comedy, probably because animation lends itself so well to very physical humor. Nowadays I have more nuanced world views, no worries.

In hindsight, I probably felt exactly that way because I had seen The Wall вЂ¦ ItвЂ™s really hard to know after so many years. That was exactly how I felt: squeezed through a meat mincer by society, to flawlessly fit within the system and be part of a shapeless uniform mass, together with my peers. Faceless students are being squeezed through a meat mincer by a frustrated teacher. It contains a great piece of animation which perfectly illustrated how I saw society and school. The film also fit very well with my bleak view on life at that time. The animation sequences were even trippier than my own trips! The Wall completely romanticized my self-pity and made it all look fantastical, beautiful, and trippy. I was stoned, I was nervous and depressed, and the pot seemed to change my perception in very dark ways, creating confusing hallucinations and delusions. I was fifteen and I was smoking marijuana on a daily basis.

Here was an insanely beautiful film that was about me! About my rich adolescent inner life! About the pain and depression and craziness that I felt. I was immediately overwhelmed by the music and the animation. I remember seeing Pink Floyd - The Wall on a videotape during a visit to a pot-smoking friend of my parents.

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