Idag dök det upp en video med Pink Floyd som var helt fängslande för mig. Orden och bilderna flöt ihop och var som en märklig men vacker dröm. Efteråt förstod jag att animationen egentligen kommer från en helt egen historia, så då blev jag nyfiken på att också nysta lite i det. Det visade sig att animatören är väldigt känd i sina kretsar och han har vunnit en Oscar och också andra priser.

Lite bilder av animatören Aleksandr Petrov.

Här kommer musikvideon, originalfilmen hittar du lite längre ner.

Pink Floyd (musik, ”A Pillow Of Winds (1971)) och Aleksandr Petrov (animation, "Moya lyubov" (2006)),”; (https://youtu.be/wFt99jcazHs):

A Pillow of Winds

A cloud of eiderdown
Draws around me
Softening a sound
Sleepy time, and I lie
With my love by my side
And she's breathing low
And the candle dies
When night comes down
You lock the door
The book falls to the floor
As darkness falls
The waves roll by
The seasons change
The wind is wry
Now wakes the awl
Now sleeps the swan
Behold the dream
The dream is gone
Green fields are calling
It's falling, in a golden door
And deep beneath the ground
The early morning sounds
And I go down
Sleepy time, and I lie
With my love by my side
And she's breathing low
And I rise, like a bird
In the haze, when the first rays
Touch the sky
And the night wings die

Animationen "Moya lyubov" (My Love, 2006) är skapad av Aleksandr Petrov. Historien är baserad på “The Story of a Love” av Ivan Shmelyov. Här är själva kärnan av berättelsen:

It’s the springtime and the main character is an adolescent boy. The blossoms of spring joined with the naivety of youth are capable to beget a real tempest of passion. An innocent and pretty servant girl is a young peasant orphan, she hopelessly falls in love with the boy and she presents him with her tenderness and his first innocuous kiss.

But the boy has high romantic ideals. He reads Don Quixote so, similar to that valiant knight-errant, he wants to have courtly love and he chooses a twenty-five-year-old midwife living next to him as a lady of his heart. Blinded by infatuation he can’t see all the vulgarity that surrounds her. And writing a lot of poetic and passionate messages he at last gets her consent for a secret tryst.

“Kiss me, kiss me better…” she whispered. “Wait a bit – I’ll take off my hat.” And she tore it off.
“You are my first… and we have met by a pure accident…” she whispered again brokenly. “I must tell you all about how unhappy I am. I have never known a real, pure love. Everyone thinks of me as of a… do you understand now? My pure, innocent boy! I have had a love affair! I wrote you what a sinful woman I am. But every woman also has her dreams of an ideal and fancies she sees a mystery in men. And now I have found one in your purity, in these innocent eyes…” she whispered passionately and fanning my face with her hot breath.

When the illusions of one’s youth break it is a very painful process but without losing one’s illusions one can’t grow up.

Aleksandr Petrov, "Moya lyubov" (My love) 2006 (hela originalet, 27 min); (https://youtu.be/islIIzkG0w0):

Aleksandr Petrov har också gjort många fler animeringar bland annat ”Den gamle och havet” som baseras på Ernest Hemmingways historia. Det var för den han vann en Oscar.

Här är lite mer fakta om Petrov: https://g.co/kgs/8nSLNL

Aleksandr Petrov skapar animationerna genom att måla på glas och sedan ändra målningarna lite i taget. I videon nedan visar han hur historien skapas från en story board och till att bli en animation.

Aleksandr Petrov - Making of_Part 1 (ENGLISH subtitles); (https://youtu.be/GYc4xLylhS4):

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