Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape:

Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape is an hour long two-screen animated film by artist Andy Holden, made between 2011 and 2016. It explores the idea that the world has become, or is best understood as a cartoon, and therefore to understand the world we must examine how physics and logic are understood within the history of animation. The film features an animated version of the artist elaborating on the laws of physics as they appear in the history of cartoons, using multiple examples to prove his thesis. The lecture, delivered by a cartoon version of the artist, could be seen as a cartoon lecture on the history of cartoons. The text produced for Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crisis and Visual Art is a reduced transcript of the films central argument and various digressions.

Keywords: Animation ; Animation history ; Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation ; As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once ; Bugs Bunny ; cartoon landscape ; cartoon physics and cartoon gravity ; cartoon principles and conventions ; Disney ; Everything falls faster than an anvil ; Quantum Super-Position ; Tex Avery ; The silhouette of passage ; Wile E.Coyote ; Zeuxis and Parrhasius