Watch: ‘The Boy Who Cheated Loss of life’ Animated Quick with Many Types
by Alex Billington
December 27, 2024
Supply: YouTube
Regardless of how onerous you may attempt to delay and/or maintain off demise, you possibly can by no means cease or decelerate time. It marches on with out ever slowing down. All the time… This pretty, mesmerizing animated brief movie known as The Boy Who Cheated Loss of life is a few younger boy confronting the truth of demise. The 5-minute animated brief is created by a Vietnamese filmmaker named Pipou Phuong Nguyen who lives and works in France. This brief includes a handful of various animation kinds – beginning out with typical hand-drawn 2D with numerous stop-motion vignettes, using papercraft, material, felt, and extra. It tells the story of just a little boy who tries to cover his mom from Loss of life – taking him on a journey throughout area and time, interacting with animals and nature. The purpose is to not depart folks feeling unhappy, quite the movie “invitations you to embrace the fragility of life.” That includes unique music by Antoine Duchêne. So possibly this boy cannot actually cheat demise (can anybody?), nevertheless it looks as if he does come to grasp it higher by the tip of this story. Watch beneath.
Due to In need of the Week for the tip on this one. Transient intro from YouTube: “In a world blurring actuality & creativeness, Syd, just a little 8-year-old boy tries to cover his mom from Loss of life. They embark on a hide-and-seek sport as creatures of earth, Loss of life being their predator. Lastly, Loss of life turns into the last word predator: Time.” The Boy Who Cheated Loss of life is an animated brief written and directed and designed by Vietnamese animation filmmaker Pipou Phuong Nguyen primarily based in Pairs – you possibly can see extra of her work on her Vimeo web page or comply with her on IG @pipou.png. Made by Brunch Studio and Eddy Animation, plus Studio Manuel Cam. With artwork course & character design by Olga Serdyukova. Plus cinematography by Simon Gesrel. She units up the thought: “I needed to make a movie about demise, by means of the eyes of just a little boy who’s about to lose his mom… As I additionally watch loads of BBC Earth, I needed to create a personality who can deeply sympathize with the lives of animals.” For more information, go to Pipou’s IG or SOTW. To find extra brief movies click on right here.
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