Ailleurs (Somewhere)
2016 · 6m · France
Directed by Mélody Boulissière
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, whimsical
A young man gripped by consumer fever sets out on a journey to reach the end of the world, only to find that every destination feels predictable and familiar until he abandons his planned route for the genuinely unknown. The film employs paint-on-glass animation and collage to explore digital fatigue and the longing for authentic experience.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Cinéfondation Selection, paint-on-glass and collage, six minutes. Another consumer-fever-journey-to-the-end-of-the-world animation. The technique is rare, the premise is bog standard. Worth watching for the surface; the meaning is recycled.
A Cinéfondation-selected debut that demonstrates the rare coherence of concept and technique — the paint-on-glass surface and the film's meditation on modern restlessness are inseparable.
Mélody Boulissière layering paint-on-glass with cut-out photographs to construct landscapes that feel both remembered and imagined — the tactile hybrid mirrors the theme. Cinéfondation selection; modest scope, very assured tactility.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival – Cinéfondation 2016
- Bucheon International Animation Festival 2016
- Stockholm International Film Festival 2016
- Animafest Zagreb 2016