Berbaoc
2008 · 5m · España
Directed by Arteleku
Genres: animation, essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
An animated short made by five artists from a sound piece created from an interview with musician Santiago Irigoyen.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Five animators building a fever dream from an interview—it's got the right weird DNA, but it feels more like art-school process documented than anything that actually breaks the form; the surrealism is mannered, not dangerous.
A sophisticated collage work that understands essay film as a lineage—the decision to let five distinct visual sensibilities inhabit one sonic space creates a formal architecture that rewards close looking, and the restraint in not flattening Irigoyen's voice into a single aesthetic argument is exactly the kind of curatorial intelligence that marks serious work.
The smart move here is treating the interview as material rather than subject—by fragmenting it across five animation styles, they could've lost coherence, but instead there's a single sound design choice that threads it all together and suddenly the visual chaos reads as a unified meditation on listening itself.