The sea has always been a cinematic space rife with possibility; a place of isolation, a liminal space between lands. This is what makes the cargo ship setting of Tom C J Brown’s BIFA nominated animation Christopher at Sea the perfect location for its story of inward reflection and self-discovery. The plot concerns a young man aboard a transatlantic voyage and the chance encounter he has one night with one of the ship’s engineers. It’s a beautifully rendered animation with a delicate, painterly style that depicts the bending reality of Christopher’s perspective in a brilliantly fluid manner. Dn spoke with Brown in the wake of his BIFA nomination to talk over his own personal journey of self-discovery that occurred during the making of the film, the melodramatic realist tone he sought to achieve, and animation’s ability to push your imagination into uncharted territory.
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- 11/14/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
"A dream in a dream..." Another entrancing new music video to enjoy. This video is for the electronica track "Rip Txl" by DJ Piper - the title is a reference to the old Berlin airport called Tegel (the airport code was "Txl") that shut down in late 2020 after the brand new Ber Brandenburg airport opened to replace it. This music video is made by a very talented animator from Hamburg named Raman Djafari - he also made the funky "Pamphlets" music video we featured a few years ago as well. The "Rip Txl" video short is about five friends growing up in Berlin Spandau who experience surrealism of adolescence with all its magic, emotion and adventure. This also showed at the 2023 Annecy Film Festival for Animation in the short competition section last month. This has a very distinct stop-motion style to it, though it's all 3D made in the computer.
- 7/21/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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