My name is Neima Mehrrostami, I am a fourth year Bachelor of media studies student and I will be graduating in the year 2022. My focus is on 3D stylized animation in the horror genre. My fascination with early animation and the analog medium has resulted in exploration in analog horror in my art. I developed the “Mariana Corporation: Multi Home Video Screen Animation Test 02” from this fascination. It is an analog horror short using early animation techniques and methods to create a feeling of horror and dread. This project is important because it explores the idea of isolation, trauma and death through an abstract form.

My desire to explore these ideas through an abstract form of early Computer Generated Animation is because thies ideas to me are quite abstract and through this method I hope to create a better understanding of these ideas. 

I used ancient religious symbolism of the Aztec Empire through their representation of the death of the xolot. The combination of a somewhat cute creature with an undertone of death I feel is important in exploring my ideasl. I used the slow degradation of the rooms as a representation of repressed childhood trauma resurfacing as an adult. The slow degradation of the room comes from my personal experience with trauma and memory, that traumatic memories can discuss themselves, but the trauma will always be there. You just need to go down a level or two which is what the door represents in my film. The end of the film I go fully abstract and explore the idea of trauma and abuse of other people and how these people are not alone in their trauma but also how this anger and resentment towards the source of this trauma can lead to violence.