The short film Ryan was one of those really strange films that is different from everything and weird but you can’t take your eyes off of. There was so much going on. The setting of their interview was so realistic, so mundane—like it is definitely a real place that looks exactly like that in real life just drawn over—but the people are all wild looking! They are externally being represented by their inner state of being; they physically wear they’re struggles and their mental afflictions. The fact that the dialogue is also all real dialogue from a live interview, only adds the the realistic effect of what is being represented, and boggles the mind even further. The mixing of genres that occurs in Ryan is brilliant: an experimental short animated documentary. Its a very singular idea, mixing so many styles together into this colorful imagination soup.
The realization that what I was seeing was characters insides on the outside, had me scanning their images intensely, suddenly the mental investigator, trying to take in and piece together everything I thought was being represented. The way that their brain cells snapped and pulsed as they are connecting through this dialogue said that they got each other on a level that was deeper than all the other things going on. And the fact that the artist being interviewed was rail thin, with parts of his face and brain completely invisible, said that he is deteriorated, unrecognizable and vanishing from his own consciousness and the world around him. The ending, watching him weave through people for coins on the streets, knowing all that he was and all that he accomplished when he was well, only affirms the way the artist visually depicts him.
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