The cinematic aquarium

Elemental World Cinema

“…This also explains the rising scholarly interest in water in its intersections with film content and form. Georgina Evans (2020: 169), for example, considers the parallels between "the development of screen and aquarium exhibition practice," examining how the cinematic frame, like the aquarium, "imposes a geometric form" on both the amorphous element of water and its creaturely inhabitants (see also Crylen, 2015). Hearne's article in this issue raises a further, less examined topic: the development of techniques for rendering water in animation.…”