Essay

Factory 

The film, 'Factory' was created by an animation artist called Miwa Matreyek in 2004. This film deals with a lot of different textures and lines to draw attention to various objects. The meaning behind this film is still indescribable, but stills draw a lot of the attention from the viewer.

This film, Factory, is a very dull film. Throughout the whole animation, there the only colours that were used were black and white. There was little emotion in this film but was still very intriguing and interesting. The animation started off with a lot of men piling into the factory in the morning to start work, this then led onto the showing of the outside and eventually the inside of the factory. What was so different and intriguing about the factory was that instead of big machines moving things around, they were abnormally large hands that would do the job of what a normal machine would usually do.  I realized that it was daytime in the film because of all the men walking into the factory, meaning they were just starting their days work. There are some objects that do stand out in the animation and draw my attention straight away. Some objects were the big factory pipes blowing smoke out, blimps flying in the sky, the massive hand being used instead of a person, machines and of course, the factory itself. The massive hand confused me a lot at the start and I didn’t know what to think or feel.

The animation shows a lot of different texture, shapes and lines. In one part of the film inside the factory, it has lines on the roof which are concaved downwards. Those lines being concaved downwards draws the attention downwards to what is happening on the floor, which shows all the machines and what they are all doing. There is a lot of different texture throughout this film also, showing lots of shades of darkness or lightness in the parts where it is necessary. I found that it showed more shades of darkness throughout the animation meaning that the creator of the film is trying to give off a dull and weary vibe. I thought that the animation throughout the film was very well done and did draw my attention to the screen with the use of the factory in its creativeness.

This film really confused me at the start and I didn’t get any of it, but after a while I realized the bigger picture to it. The film is saying that technology is taking over our world we live in today, its replacing lots of things we had in our lives. It’s also showing that people are forced to do work they don’t want to do or are not comfortable in doing and are bored but have no other choice. This is a world we live in today, Miwa Matreyek has shown that very well through creative animation.