AJIMAL
I’ve Known Your Heart
AJIMAL - I've Known Your Heart
Animation by Alex Moy
From the album, As It Grows Dark / Light: https://slinky.to/AsItGrowsDark-Light
ⓟ & © 2020 AJIMAL under exclusive license to Wow & Flutter Records.
Written and performed by Fran O’Hanlon
Produced by Guy Massey and Fran O'Hanlon
All rights reserved.
https://www.ajimal.co.uk
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“The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles of the body. The self is not contained in any moment or any place, but it is only in the intersection of moment and place, that the self might, for a moment, be seen vanishing through a door, which disappears at once.” - Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
Early on, Fran brought the idea of developing a piece based on the book Sexing the Cherry by Jeneatte Winterson. It’s this incredible novel that follows the relationship of a mother and her adopted son - only it’s told in a suspended reality where time is nonlinear and pieces of the story are fragmented from one character’s subconscious thoughts to the next. Without establishing a concrete sense of time, it forces you to question what is true and what is only experienced by the character’s imagination. Winterson erases any foundation of past, present, and future. It becomes a story about how different versions of the same experience can be created by allowing the mind to interpret time and space in its own way.
This animated piece is a story of two spiritually-bound figures pulled apart by the currents of time. One grows old, the other grows up and departs from their shared world. But time doesn’t work in a linear, one-dimensional way and this story exists in a suspended reality where time is fragmented. We follow the characters through their separate journeys, watching time steer them back to one another.