Please click here to watch the video (it's only about 4 minutes long)
I stumbled apron this one day and thought I might try to write a blog about it (lets see how this turns out)
The first thing I thought I would do was find out if this was any specific deity (just to be safe because this was made by a Russian). Interestingly enough I almost immediately found it, the god portrayed in this animation is Shiva. After a little more digging I think that the Shiva in this animation is portrayed as the Trimurti version (I'll get to why later). Also the actual image of shiva in this animation is a Nataraja depiction (see photo below) This version of Shiva is the "destroyer or transformer". Also a fly-whisk is associated with Shiva which might explain the characters. Great now that you know the back ground of the deity in question on to the actual animation.
First off: great use of non lingual forms of communication throughout the piece. You could almost write a script just by watching it. Secondly: very insightful into the deity represented (according to my research). Now there is one thing my research seems to show incorrect: Shiva has four arms not six, which I am sure is just a artistic liberty on the part of the creator (but still nice to know the actual portrayal of a deity). Just watching this it is a interesting animation, but dig a little deeper and it is actually intricate with its symbolism.
And now for the big mind bender: what does the ending mean? The truth is I don't know. Shiva falls and the fly turns into a spider, this leads me to assume that the super is actually Shiva (god of transformation and destruction ring a bell?), but then what does this mean? Does it mean that the "statue" was a fake Shiva and the fly was the real one? I just don't know, I have a feeling I just don't know enough about the religion to know. Of course maybe it's supposed to be inconclusive , maybe you're supposed to decide which is the god and which the fly.
Likely the type of statue Shiva was based off of.
Cool and funny video, I too wondered whether the fly turned into a spider, or whether it was simply eaten by one. The spider has 8 legs (like the Shiva - 8 limbs) so perhaps the Shiva returned as a spider?
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