Art and Technology - Assignment Two

Assignment: Watch animation of Opera Madama Butterfly and blog about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E387c5RAhK4

After watching a different version in class, I was not expecting this animation to have so much ?detail? in it. Not knowing about the story of this Opera besides what we saw in class, this animation displays a woman getting impregnated by a Sailor. He then goes off and returns by ship after the daughter was born. He comes back with a different woman and takes the child away. The mother no longer wants anything to do with her life without her daughter and the sailor and  end up killing herself.

This animation took an interesting/out there approach to the story. One, the child was first born as a fish.. then changed to a child hooked to the mother by an umbilical cord and flying like a kite attached to one another. The father breaks the cord from the mother and takes the child away. The mother tears her skin off of her body and then disassembles herself with tools.

Interesting... not my kind of thing but very interesting to see how people can think of such things.