Experimental film - Flight (2006, Dryden Goodwin)

Flight (2006, Dryden Goodwin) is a experimental short film that uses live action, animation and music to covey a journey from a cityscape to the sea. Very little diegetic sound is used, instead relying heavily on a non diegetic soundtrack to make the scenes more distant from reality, perhaps only in the imagination of the protagonist. The soundtrack is slow and emotional, using sounds such as a distorted female voice to create a melancholy atmosphere. The camerawork is very fluid, using zooms, pans and handheld camerawork to evoke a sense of freedom and express the journey the narrative takes. The drawing animations convey an uncomfortable and distracted psychology of the protagonist, changing quickly around its surroundings and over the faces of strangers, as if the protagonist is trying to make sense of other people and the locations he finds himself in. The drawings, along with the entire film's journey, could simply be a method of distraction; perhaps he is drawing these images from his minds eye, and this allows to him (mentally) escape the urban environment seen in the second shot, hence why the first shot is static; because he hasn't yet embarked on his mental journey. The film fits into Bordwell and Thompson's 'Associational form' experimental film category, through it's use of connections between animation and live action, as well as the seemingly unconnected scenes.The film's soundtrack, dark cinematography and lack of dialogue/characters has an unnerving effect on the audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vB0KDodaxc