Fish Eye
Marissa Keierleber
STUDENT ARTWORK
Category
Animation
Artwork medium
mp4 video file
ARTIST STATEMENT
Fish Eye is a hybrid-style 2D horror animation that uses 2.5D and 3D elements. It follows the story of a fisherman who reels in a mermaid and becomes consumed by the thought of her. It explores themes of gendered violence and obsession, subverting feminist Linda Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze and Barbara Creed’s Monstrous-Feminine [film theory], through the use of a reverse mermaid design (fish head and human body) to undermine the traditional scopophilic/voyeuristic lens of the camera. It utilises imagery of a ‘dissolving reality’ to emphasise its surrealist elements and instil a sense of urgency.
ARTIST INTRODUCTION
My name is Marissa Keierleber, I am a third-year at UNSW and am drawn to traditional 2D frame-by-frame styles of animation. My work focuses on data aesthetics and experimental styles of animation (hybrid forms).
CONTACT
Email: keierleber.m@gmail.com
Acknowledgement of Country
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We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
