“Nekje drugje” is a children's animated chalkboard theater play produced by the Ljubljana Puppet Theater. The story presents the absurdities of war through the eyes of a child. The actress draws an imaginary world on a rotating board, where a chalk drawn girl character walks and magically comes to life in the play. This is made possible by the stop animation projected on the board. With the help of dynamic video mapping and sensors built into the rotating board that tracks its movement, the boundary between the drawn and projected image is blurred. In the performance, the text and the animation are in a constant relationship, where they reciprocally complement each other. Speech, projected animation and visual art play an equal role as central narrative elements. Early examples and wider use of film projections in theater plays are recorded in the first half of the 20th century and especially in Germany, where the director E. Piscator stands out as the leading pioneer.
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