Dans le cochon tout est bon

2011 · 4m · Belgium

Directed by Iris Alexandre

Genres: animation, dark comedy, experimental

Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal

En animation en volume, un cochon passe de l'être vivant à un banquet infini : sang, os et morceaux de chair se transforment en une chorégraphie gastronomique où rien ne se perd et tout se transforme.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A four-minute stop-motion meditation on death and consumption that refuses to choose between horror and beauty—the pig doesn't decompose, it *performs*, and watching butchery become balletic choreography is exactly the kind of unsettling premise that makes people uncomfortable in the right way.

Felix

Alexandre's formal restraint in the face of grotesque subject matter recalls the deadpan surrealism of Czech animation tradition; the measured pacing and sculptural precision of the volumetric work situate this firmly in the lineage of animated philosophy rather than shock value.

Margot

The decision to let the transformation happen in real time—no cuts, no hiding—forces the viewer's eye to track the metamorphosis from living thing to ingredient, and that commitment to continuous observation is what makes the gallows humor actually land instead of feeling cheap.

Zoe

Reviews

Il est rafraichissant alors, de voir un film qui renverse ce constat, qui montre un sujet délicat avec respect à l'aide des facultés à la fois représentative et symbolique de l'animation. Un acte plutôt brutal et, indépendamment de son utilité sociale, peu humain, s'enjolive en une chorégraphie de formes et de couleurs gracieuses.

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