Any form of complex competition can be turned into a chess metaphor – it’s just a fact of life, and language. So what, exactly, do the come-to-life chess pieces represent in the game being played by these big business barons? It’s not a rhetorical question, I’m genuinely confused.
E242 is from creator Eduard Sidoruk, who runs the Belorussian animation studio, Atomic Helix. Belarus is the only dictatorship left in Europe; factor this into your discussion of the chess metaphor in the video however you wish.
Filed under: Crackle Animation | Tagged: Atomic Helix, belarus, chess, eduard sidoruk, Europe
