Harm van den Dorpel [NL], Projection, 2005
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Temporary Deconstructions is a series of short animations made by Amsterdam based artist Harm van den Dorpel in which people, animals and things collapse and deform. They are 'moving-stills' where every frame is a reconfiguration of pieces of one single image. One source of inspiration worth mentioning is a short Christian propaganda film from 1941 called 'The Rapture', the reason for the deconstructions could be the coming apocalypse. However, in these animations, it never becomes entirely clear whether the subjects have fainted, are living, dead, or sleeping; the pingpong-players continue to breathe while they lay on the ground.