Structural Components of Two-Dimensional Experimental Animation in The Mad, Mad, Mad World (1974) Nour Eddin Zarrin-Kelk

The distinction between experimental films from narrative films of conventional cinema can be examined in two ways: narrative type and cinematic form. An experimental animated film is also based on these two concepts of personality-oriented animation. One of the two-dimensional experimental animated films is the creative use of drawing and painting, which, apart from conventional stereotypes, represents the visual-conceptual ideas derived from the artist's mind. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the structural components of experimental two-dimensional animated films and their recognition in the chosen work of this research.Due to the essence of the data, the research methodology is considered qualitative and the study process is descriptive-analytical and with a comparative approach. Also, based on narrative theories and definitions of the form, the relationship between the structure of the form and the content of the two-dimensional experimental animated film is examined. Regarding to the qualitative methodology, this article concludes that the time, narration, and editing of this animated film are non-experimental, despite the representation is fully experimental; so if the dominant element of an experimental (2D) animation film is experimental, that film can be considered experimental movie, even though its other components are non-experimental; also, the conceptual content of the work can be non-avant-garde or non-experimental if the dominant and formal element of the film is completely experimental.