创意动画赏：溺水的艺术

溺水的艺术（The Art Of Drowning）是Emily Carr大学学生Diego Maclean的毕业作品，作者希望通过动画来解读当代诗人比利·柯林斯的诗歌 The Art Of Drowning（见文后），以此来表现死亡还有轻松的一面。

Diego Maclean别具匠心地选择了独特的钢笔手绘风格的表现，恰到好处地体现了诗歌的本意，略带速写味道的线条自然而随意，让看到这个片子的人不会因为这个关于死亡题材的动画而感到压抑不安。

当死亡扑面而来的时候，我们也许只有很短的时间在记忆的漩涡中，回忆快速地在脑海中闪现（可以参考 Last Day Dream这个短片），突然发现，自己生命的痕迹留在这个世界上的也只有那么多，就这样的，一辈子就过去了，如同溺水一般。

但是，任何溺水的人心底都是会有过想要被人救出水面的期望的，救起后，会如同新生了一般的重新生活。从现在开始，过自己真正想要过的生活，等到某一天死亡摆在你面前，不会遗憾、后悔的坦然面对。

所以，溺水的艺术其实是想通过死亡来反映生命与生活的艺术。

The Art Of Drowning

Billy Collins

I wonder how it all got started, this business

about seeing your life flash before your eyes

while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,

could startle time into such compression, crushing

decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.

After falling off a steamship or being swept away

in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn’t you hope

for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand

turning the pages of an album of photographs-

you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.

How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?

Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?

Wouldn’t any form be better than this sudden flash?

Your whole existence going off in your face

in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography-

nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.

Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance

here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,

an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,

dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.

But if something does flash before your eyes

as you go under, it will probably be a fish,

a quick blur of curved silver darting away,

having nothing to do with your life or your death.

The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all

as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,

leaving behind what you have already forgotten,

the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.