Cycle
2013 · 5m · Canada
Directed by Raquel Sancinetti
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
A wordless stop-motion portrait of modern alienation through lives saturated with consumer electronics.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Sancinetti's solo-crafted stop-motion dissection of technological loneliness operates with the compressed moral clarity of a fable, and its festival circulation in Barcelona and Montreal speaks to a formal intelligence that transcends its graduation-film origins.
Four-minute wordless stop-motion about consumer electronics and loneliness — Tati is a heavy ghost to invoke. Small, modest, probably exactly as advertised: an animation-school mood piece.
A wordless stop-motion couple drowning in the ambient drone of their own devices — Sancinetti hand-built the puppets and co-designed the sound, which is exactly the kind of total authorship I show up for. Tati's silence reformatted for the phone era.
Festivals
- Berlinale 2014