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- Aoife Rhatigan
Aoife
Rhatigan
Stepping On My Own Foot
A nameless being ascends an endless staircase as a series of vignettes of both dreams and reality unfold beside him. Each memory shaping his climb and culminating in a surreal meditation on life, death and birth.
‘Stepping on My Own Foot’ is a visual and emotional exploration of the human journey, presented through a blend of symbolism, abstraction, and deeply personal yet universal imagery. The protagonist, a formless being, serves as a reflective surface, inviting viewers to imprint their own memories, emotions, and interpretations onto the narrative. The staircase symbolizes the persistent climb of daily life, while the surrounding vignettes act as echoes of lived experience, dreams, anxieties and desires. This barrage of memories and experiences culminate in the exasperated being eventually giving into the spectre of death, a bird, the same creature which brought him into this life.
Influenced by absurdism and stream-of-consciousness storytelling, the film resists conventional narrative structure to instead evokesfeeling and introspection. The surreal visuals and nonlinear rhythm allow the audience to navigate between the conscious and subconscious, emphasizing how every step forward in life is shaped by the weight, or lightness, of memory. The film ultimately asks: how do our inner lives influence the paths we walk?
Mushroom House
‘Mushroom House’ is a short I made during concept development for my final piece. It’s a punchy animation which features a paper cut out background overlaid with digital animation.
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