Chainsaw Maid

I found this animation by Takena Nagao whilst looking for Ron Mueck pics. It is interesting that he has chosen an uncanny medium (claymation) to express an uncanny narrative (the living dead, cannibalism). I wonder if this was a conscious choice, or if the creator had any interest in the topic of the uncanny when he made this?

It is very over the top, and full of clay gore, but manages to tell the tale without resorting to use of language other than some text on a newspaper. The rest is sound effects with the occasional subtitle. The piece could have been improved slightly by not having legible words on the newspaper, replaced possibly with a picture of a zombie and some illegible hieroglyphs. This would allow it to have total global accessibility, as any country could easily have the subtitles replaced for the native tongue.

This is the kind of consideration I must make when making my projects, in order that they can be made globally accessible as easily as possible, as their topics should have global appeal if I can design them properly.






Takena Nagao's youtube page can be found here, containing more violent and twisted claymations:



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