Secondary research

Idea Developing

As I like the director Jan Švankmajer’s style, and I’m starting to think about other animation directors who have similar styles as Jan Švankmajer.

Then the director Brothers Quay came up from my brain.

I remember the Brothers Quay mentioned in an interview before that they were also influenced by Jan Švankmajer when they were interested in animation or film making in the early days.

The Brothers Quay

‘The Brothers’ works from 1979 to the present show a wide range of often esoteric influences.

Most of their animation films feature puppets made of doll parts and other organic and inorganic materials, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere.’

Then I started to watch all of the stop motion animations made by the Brothers Quay which I could find. After watching all of their works for the first time, I was deeply impressed by one of their works, ‘the Street of Crocodiles’.

This animation can be said to be one of their classic representative works, presenting the story in a dark and abstract style.

And it just happened to meet my needs. The original soundtrack version of this animation was very musical. The composer Leszek Jankowski made very good music to guide the audience to feel the emotional changes of the characters. This gave me the opportunity to recreate a different sound version of this great animation.

‘The Street of Crocodiles’