It's Saturday morning! It's cartoon morning!
Even though, I usually post animations from The Saturday Morning Cartoon Index, I have now decided to post other little jewels of animations that I find elsewhere, as well. This post was originally posted on NeochaEDGE, a wonderful site I was fortunate enough to be invited to contributed to.
"The Soliloquist" by Taiwanese illustrator and animator Ma Kuangpei (馬匡霈, aka Keats) is a modern fable about loneliness and self-deception. It tells the story of a heart broken man who receives letters and packages stating with the wrong addressee. Unable to return the letters, he starts to read them and develops a strange illusory relationship with his fictitious alter-ego.
Ma’s animated short combines Eastern and Western aesthetic concepts and is defined by a wonderful combination of collage and watercolor styles with brilliant transitions. Watch the entire six-minute film below.
Born in 1981, Ma graduated from the Tainan National University of the Arts. The Soliloquist (aka 我说啊，我说) was produced in 2008 as his graduation work. It has received amazing feedback ever since and was nominated and screened at numerous international film festivals. In 2009 it was awarded the “Little Nomad Prize“ at the Urban Nomad Filmfest in Taipei, Taiwan and it received the “Special Mention – Asian New Force“ at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards. Moreover, it has received the “Special Distinction Award” in the Graduation Films category at the 33rd 2009 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, becoming the first Taiwanese animated movie to receive an award at the competition. Ma’s success this year, in combination with this most-recent honor, will serve to show Chinese artists, most of whom are currently focused on the technical aspect of animation, another direction in which they can grow.
2 comments:
I think it's beautiful, love the technique, very original. But left me with an incomplete feeling, as if the story should go on :)
yes, i absolutely love it, too! it's wonderful!
you are right, i also had the feeling that it was incomplete, but i think it's supposed to let you feel like that, since that is the feeling of the main character...happiness for a short time but then we realize and wake up from the dream :)
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