"Your wooden dumplings are a bit lost" and they may not be the only ones. The title takes its name from the period between winter and spring, part of the Chinese solar calendar. Jingzhe is a time of change, and there is much of it here.
Writing/directing duo Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy have now made six films together, have a handful of other animation department credits. The film shows a mixture of styles, from overprinted verisimilitude to a somewhat abstracted CCTV-eye that recalls nought so much as original PlayStation survival horror games, fixed camera, isometric perspective, creeping dread.
There are uneasy geographies other than the political. A swarm of paper tigers across the shop floor, a medicine cabinet whose geometries draw drawers across walls and ceilings, wood and brass and paper-labelled with roots and routes of Escher unsure. In other places the differently real, hexagonal lens flare making promises about optics.
Writing/directing duo Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy have now made six films together, have a handful of other animation department credits. The film shows a mixture of styles, from overprinted verisimilitude to a somewhat abstracted CCTV-eye that recalls nought so much as original PlayStation survival horror games, fixed camera, isometric perspective, creeping dread.
There are uneasy geographies other than the political. A swarm of paper tigers across the shop floor, a medicine cabinet whose geometries draw drawers across walls and ceilings, wood and brass and paper-labelled with roots and routes of Escher unsure. In other places the differently real, hexagonal lens flare making promises about optics.
- 2/9/2023
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Annecy’s short film competition is many things. It is a celebration of the best short, animated films from the previous year, a barometer of bigger things to come from filmmakers on the rise, a place of recognition for established filmmakers still going strong decades into their careers, and a home to experimentation impossible to find almost anywhere else.
Each year, Variety watches each of the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks ten of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, we’ll leave that to the judges, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Affairs of the Art”
24 years after sweeping the Special Jury, Ufoleis and Mellow Manor awards at Annecy 1987, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joanna Quinn is back with her iconic creation Beryl, in a new story of aging, body image, sisterly love and fond memories. One...
Each year, Variety watches each of the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks ten of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, we’ll leave that to the judges, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Affairs of the Art”
24 years after sweeping the Special Jury, Ufoleis and Mellow Manor awards at Annecy 1987, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joanna Quinn is back with her iconic creation Beryl, in a new story of aging, body image, sisterly love and fond memories. One...
- 6/17/2021
- by Jamie Lang, Emilio Mayorga and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Boyd van Hoeij notes that Critics' Week has lined up first-time directors "almost exclusively" for its 2012 edition. Notes, links and so on will be added over the coming hours and days:
Competition
Features
Vasan Bala's Peddlers. The Critics' Week synopsis: "A ghost town, Mumbai, inhabited by millions. A lady on a mission, a man living a lie, an aimless drifter. They collide. Some collisions are of consequence, some not, either ways the city moves on."
Antonio Méndez Esparza's Aquí y Allá. CW: Pedro returns home to his small village in Guerrero, Mexico after having worked for several years in the Us. Even though the village is expecting a bountiful harvest, they're still preoccupied with opportunities north of the border.
Alejandro Fadel's Los Salvajes. CW: "Five teenagers violently escape a reformatory school in an Argentinean province.... They hunt to feed, rob houses they come across, do drugs, bathe in the river,...
Competition
Features
Vasan Bala's Peddlers. The Critics' Week synopsis: "A ghost town, Mumbai, inhabited by millions. A lady on a mission, a man living a lie, an aimless drifter. They collide. Some collisions are of consequence, some not, either ways the city moves on."
Antonio Méndez Esparza's Aquí y Allá. CW: Pedro returns home to his small village in Guerrero, Mexico after having worked for several years in the Us. Even though the village is expecting a bountiful harvest, they're still preoccupied with opportunities north of the border.
Alejandro Fadel's Los Salvajes. CW: "Five teenagers violently escape a reformatory school in an Argentinean province.... They hunt to feed, rob houses they come across, do drugs, bathe in the river,...
- 4/24/2012
- MUBI
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