Watch Glass Gardens

Glass Gardens is an animated allegory of the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. The protagonist wanders the destroyed ruins of a consumer culture, gathering relics, and creating new works. Glass Gardens is a black and white graphite-on-paper, cut-out animation.The original was shot on 16mm film. It utilizes a variety of animation techniques:
cutout sequential drawings, jointed characters,
drawing and erasing under the camera,
replacement animation, and in-camera special effects.

Written, directed and animated by Lisa Crafts
Music by Laraaji
1982

6 minutes