A Story for 2 Trumpets
2021 · 5m · France
Directed by Amandine Meyer
Genres: animation, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
Beginning with a lover's quarrel, the film enters the interior of a bandage on a young girl, a mental and liquid image where a goose teaches a baby the recorder.
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A quarrel that dissolves into the literal interior of a bandage—where geese teach recorders to infants—is exactly the kind of "wait, WHAT?" premise that makes consensus critics deeply uncomfortable, and Meyer knows it. This is surrealism that doesn't apologize for its illogic, and that's the whole point.
Meyer's command of liquid abstraction and her willingness to nest emotional states inside material objects speaks to a lineage of structuralist animation and psychoanalytic cinema—Brakhage's interiority meets contemporary digital painterly technique. The formal restraint in service of dreamlike association marks this as work aware of its own tradition.
The decision to locate the emotional crisis *inside* the bandage rather than around it—treating an everyday object as a portal rather than mere metaphor—is the singular choice that transforms what could be whimsy into something genuinely disorienting and alive.