The animation chosen has some themes similarities with the Norman McLaren (Neighbours 1952) is an anti-war film, telling the story about two people fighting for the flower possession, same as Jumping, starting quietly and ends up in a conflict. He used pixilation (filming moving people and objects a few frames at a time) as animation style, giving a panicking and unnatural look.
“I was inspired to make Neighbours by a stay of almost a year in the People’s Republic of China. Although I only saw the beginnings of Mao’s revolution, my faith in human nature was reinvigorated by it. Then I came back to Quebec and the Korean War began. (…) I decided to make a really strong film about anti-militarism and against war.” — Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren is a animator and filmmaker who studied set design in Glasgow School of Fine Arts in 1932. His firsts experiments in animation were scratching and painting on the film stock since he did not have access to a camera. In the early 30s he worked as a cameraman in Scotland and England, and in 1936 filmed the Civil War in Spain. After that he emigrated to the US, avoiding the war, and moved to Canada to work for the National Film Board when he got the invitation of John Grierson in 1941.
Different ways of describing conflicts that lead the main characters into death.
In Neighbours, the audience is observing the neighbours having an argument when in jumping, the animation involve the spectator in the conflict audio-visually.
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