Coco de Elevador
2013 · 4m · Brazil
Directed by Paulo Passaro
Genres: animation, comedy, romance
An animated music video for Brazilian DJ Chico Correa, following an office worker's attempts to impress a coworker, structured in three acts that move between traditional 2D animation, CG, and stop-motion to contrast the textures of everyday reality and desire.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The film's structural audacity — three animation grammars enlisted to map the distance between quotidian drudgery and private fantasy — makes it a formally richer artifact than its music-video category would suggest.
Brazilian music video, four minutes, three animation registers in three acts. Award-winning at CIFF for Best Music Video. Music video is the operative word — the multi-technique conceit serves the song, not the film. Worth a glance, not the canon.
Three animation registers — 2D, CG, stop-motion — deployed as a formal argument about the gap between reality and desire inside a four-minute music video. That's a smart way to use the format constraint.
Festivals
- Animamundi 2015
- Canada International Film Festival 2014, Best Music Video