A house on the cliffs, a father, a son, and the ice business. With a sure sense of style, João Gonzalez turns his atmospheric animation into a family metaphor.
There is a house hanging from heavy ropes, firmly anchored to the rocks. Up there in the cliffs, far above the town below, a father lives with his son in the cold. In his 2D frame-by-frame animation, director João Gonzalez uses few colours, which makes the harsh shadows and extreme camera angles of his drawings all the more atmospheric. He has realised a metaphorical tale that can do without dialogue, relying on sound and images alone.
In northern Colombia Dolly takes the railway to drive people from village to village every day – with a “Motorrodillo”, a surrogate train equally ingenious and improvised.
In rural northern Colombia, where the railway has long been discontinued, people help themselves with a fleet of “Motorrodillos” – motorcycle-driven miniature trains. Every day, Dolly and her colleagues take school kids, goods and travellers on rugged routes from village to village. If you meet oncoming traffic on the way, you get off the rails. If you find holes in the rails, you mend them yourself. The affectionate portrait of a self-organised transport system.
Marie Kloos
Credits
Director
Alba Jaramillo
Cinematographer
David Horacio Montoya
Editor
Francine Lemaître
Producer
Qutaiba Barhamji, Marie-Odile Gazin, Alba Jaramillo
Incel culture is the expression of a current understanding of masculinity. López’s essay investigates the echo chamber effect on the internet and the feeling of loneliness in the age of algorithms.
In 2018, a user called AnathematicAnarchist published a suicide note in an online forum for incels – a subculture of heterosexual men whose self-pity, misogyny and fantasies of violence dominate the internet in many places and trigger offline actions in some. Did he really take his own life? Is America responsible for his death, as he claims in his text? A search for clues in the darkest corners of the net, an essay about pain and loneliness in the age of algorithms.
Marie Kloos
Credits
Director
Gala Hernández López
Script
Gala Hernández López
Cinematographer
A. Pol Camprubí
Editor
Gala Hernández López, Alberto Dexeus
Producer
Lucas Le Postec, Thibault de Gantes, Ninon Chapuis