Blind Spot
2007 · 3m · France
Directed by Johanna Bessière, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cécile Dubois-Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby
Genres: animation, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A would-be robber enters a small convenience shop to hold it up, only to be undone by a near-sighted elderly grandmother who cannot see him clearly — a collision of intent and oblivion that escalates with catastrophic dark comedy.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Six directors at Gobelins found in the blind spot — the space between what is seen and what is missed — a figure so apt for dark comedy that the film functions as both demonstration and definition of the form.
Gobelins student animation, six co-directors, Cannes Cinéfondation 2008. Three minutes of robber-versus-near-sighted-grandmother dramatic irony. Gobelins shorts are reliably technically brilliant and conceptually slight. This is exactly that: charming, complete, minor.
A Gobelins student film that took Cinéfondation, SIGGRAPH Best Student Piece, and Anima Mundi — that's a heavy student-festival sweep. Three minutes of dramatic irony as the entire moral engine; tight and exacting.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival 2007
- SIGGRAPH 2007
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2007