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Guilherme Marcondes’ animation

Brazilian-born, New York-based filmmaker Guilherme Marcondes’ animated shorts take viewers on surreal journeys through magical landscapes. I love his award-winning work, Tyger [above], inspired by the William Blake poem of the same name. In this film, the passing of a prowling, hand-puppet feline turns the human inhabitants of a large city into animals. As a dour family become chattering apes and peons at a bus stop are transformed into birds of all shapes and sizes, the viewer is reminded of the animality that lies, often repressed, at our human core. In his more recent short, a promo for the UK’s BBC2 featuring environmentalist Bruce Parry (2008), Marcondes once again tackles the nature/culture divide by creating a world in which an ‘exploitation machine’ devours human and animal life. His wry comment on consumerism is brought to brilliant life through the use of mechanical miniatures which are both creepy and aesthetically striking in their detail. I can’t wait to see his next work, the opening sequence for the forthcoming film, Bunraku, starring Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.

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