Guernica by Vancouver Film School - For Editors, art lovers and curious people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drJL-pRTko

The character starts out in Van Gogh's "Room at Arles", Then goes to Salvador Dali's "Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus", then journeys' onward to Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Memory", gets lost in M.C. Esher's "Crazy Stairs" and jumps off to Picasso's most known and remarkable WWII painting "Guernica"

Wonderfully imaginative. It's almost a metaphor for Picasso's progression in his work. Going through different stages, being frustrated with all forms of art and settling on his own, personal style. And he died doing that style. The Character comes from a violent painting hence his urge to destroy what is beautiful, represented by the butterfly but he resists. The stress, the confusion becomes overwhelming to the point of suicide in which he finds his place.

Your vision path is the editor's vision path

Look at the motion graphics and the editing.
The editor cuts to white to differentiate scenes and different explanations but the most important factor is that the way this short film is constructed, the cuts and mainly the animations are made in such a way that your eyes always follow a set path and should the path change, there is a smooth exchange and not an abrupt discontinuity.
Putting the great animation and editing aside, the content is a vulgarized version of something would give anybody a headache if explained in technical terms.

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Science of Sciences

Editing is a multi-discipline.
In order to truely use editing as an art form instead of a robotic process, one must understand differnt aspects of Mathematics, psychology, physics, chemistry, literature, etc