There are plenty of wrenching moments in this one: the sorrowful little way she holds her hands as she walks to and fro in her little apartment; the symbolism of the vase and the pigeons; the tolling of the enormous clock and the way she instantly notices its silence; the clever-yet-subdued way it uses photographs to give us backstory; and that devastating dolly zoom. And the final few frames just might feel like a punch in the stomach. I realize that it's yet another short film about the effects of memory and death in (and on) our lives—I keep stumbling across these topics, don't I?—but it's powerful and wonderfully-made made.
Day by day, the daughter of an elder military commander takes care of her bedridden father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.
Stop Motion Short Film
Running time: 11'50''
Winner of 90 International Awards and Selected in 265 International Film Festivals
Synopsis:
Day by day, the daughter of an elder military commander takes care of her bedridden father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.
Making of:
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Idea and Direction:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Screenplay:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Screenplay advisor:
Patricio Plaza
Pre production:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Silvina Cornillón
Patricio Plaza
Natalia Acosta
Storyboards:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Patricio Plaza
Stop motion Animation:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Production (France):
Dora Benousilio
Production (Argentina):
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Patricio Plaza
Cinematographer:
Sergio Piñeyro
Juan Maglione
CGI Clock:
Gervasio Rodriguez Traverso (Trexel)
Pablo A. Diaz (Trexel)
Marcelo Maccarrone
CGI Birds:
Mariano Antico (Barraca Post)
Federico Gimeno
Miguel Alejandro Cortina
Post production:
Diego Gambarotta
Javier Ignacio Luna Crook
Hernán González
Guadalupe Labaké
Montage - Editing:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Patricio Plaza
Armatures:
Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Florentino Grasso
Puppet matrices and constructions:
Ariel Bernachea
Art assistants:
Ariel Bernachea
Sebastián Hojnadel
Christian Davies
Maru Tomé
Diana Rasco
Mauro Rodriguez Santos
Ana Flores
Costumes and Graphic Design:
Natalia Acosta
Portraits Illustrations:
Sebastian Dufour
Music
Lucas Nikotian
Patricio Plaza
Sound mixing and editing:
Alexandre Lormeau
Foley:
Patricio Plaza
Romain Anklewicz
Foley recording:
Stephane de Rocquigny
Auditoriums: HLC
Laboratories: Sylicone
Color correction:
Isabelle Laclau
Collaborators:
Gustavo Goglino
Agustin Pecchia
Leonardo Crisóstomo
Humberto Taglialegna
Eugenia Mindurry
Facundo Marsilli
Country of Production: Argentina - France
Filmed in opusBou (Bariloche, Argentina) and Can Can Club (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
© Santiago 'Bou' Grasso 2013-2014
Attribution(s): Video, images, and stills are the property of Santiago Bou Grasso and other respective production studios and distributors.