Wind & Tree
2013 · 6m · Canada
Directed by Konstantin Steshenko
Tones: melancholic, mythic, tender
A wind and a tree fall into an impossible love — their natures incompatible, their union catastrophic.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Stop-motion impossible-love between wind and tree made from felt and carpet — student film with a clear eye and a real material commitment. Six minutes, no posturing.
Steshenko building elemental forces from felt, carpet, cotton, and wire as an Emily Carr graduation film is the precise Dudok-de-Wit material-as-meaning gesture, and the Ottawa Best Canadian Student Film prize confirms the craft. Six minutes of considered material poetry.
6:25 Emily Carr grad film constructed from felt, cotton, carpet, and wire — that domestic-textiles-as-elemental-forces craft choice IS the film's emotional argument. Shot in Dragonframe, animated in Photoshop and After Effects, with Ottawa Best Canadian Student Film. Material specificity earning the mythic register.
Festivals
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2013, Best Canadian Student Film