Help Me Help You
2017 · 4m · USA
Directed by Calvin Frederick, Grace Nayoon Rhee, Rachel Ho, Isabelle Aspin, Brian Smee, Sean Buckelew
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
Six CalArts-connected animators from the collective CG RIBS each contribute a self-portrait animation, treating the brief abstractly; the resulting film is cohesive yet formally diverse, a group portrait built from wildly different visual languages.
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Six animators from the collective that came from that chocolate fountain video. Now doing self-portraits together. What does a hive mind look like when it tries to show you its individual faces? Weirder than you'd think.
Six CG RIBS animators each take a swing at self-portraiture and the collisions are the point — a debut that announces a sensibility rather than a house style, which is the more interesting move.
Six CalArts-trained animators each delivering their own four-minute self-portrait in radically different visual languages — the collective authorship is the form and the form is the feeling. CG RIBS debut, and it shows real range.