Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll were but three of the shared subjects animating the Annecy Animation Showcase, presented as part of the Marché du Film at last month’s Cannes Film Festival. Marking its f…
,” from Spain’s María Trénor, both deploy a similar, rotoscoped 2D style towards wildly different ends.A Spanish-Polish co-production, fully-financed and aiming for a festival berth early next year, Trénor’s “Rock Bottom” offers a loose and liberated riff on the life of British rocker Robert Wyatt.
The excerpt screened found a young set of lovers skinny-dipping under the moonlight, and making Super-8 home movies scored by the crashing waves and by Wyatt’s blotto anthem “Sea Song.” Cast in clean lines and rich colors, the footage matched the music’s wistful tone, while director Marian Trenor compared her own biography to that of Wyatt – specifically to singer’s period of artistic ferment and physical hardships after an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Assembled like a B-movie sizzle reel, the presentation for “Hina is Beautiful” was montage of women undressing, motorcycles roaring at full speed, men brawling and tight close-ups of razors dripping with blood, all painted in bright watercolors, set to relentless guitar licks, and broken up by intertitles promising “Sheer madness’ and “Men… driven by impulse!” Aiming for completion in 2025, the project will build on the idiosyncratic rotoscope style director Iwaisawa Kenji developed for his...
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya’s “Heirloom” offered an even more pronounced formal leap by toggling 2D digital with a kind of needlepoint stop motion where every frame is a detailed tapestry. The two-craft project follows characters that forgo the heartbreaks of daily life by leaping into an epic tapestry that immortalizes their family saga in fabric.
A feature, spinning off an Arte series that was itself adapted from a long-running comic collection, “Silex and the City” will continue to satirize contemporary issues through the prism of a Stone Age clan. Series creator Jul and co-director Jean-Paul Guigue will now widen their aperture, aiming at broader topics than the long-running television series, which often skewered French celebrities and politicians.
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