DIRECTOR: EMILIO RAMOS
ANIMATORS/DESIGNERS/ILUSTRATORS: EMILIO RAMOS, MARIA DEL MAR HERNÁNDEZ, JORDI CODINA
COMPOSER: LEO HEIBLUM
SCREENWRITERS: MARIA DEL MAR HERNÁNDEZ, JORDI CODINA, EMILIO
RAMOS OLD MAN VOICE: JOSEP CODINA
RENDER: IRAKLI KUBLASHVILI STILL PHOTO: ROCÍO RAMOS, SANTIAGO GARCÉS
CREDITS DESIGN: DIANA LÓPEZ FONT TOOLS: MAYA, FLASH, AFTER EFFECTS
In this elegant animated fairy tale from Spain, an elderly man living in an impoverished village perpetually enshrouded in fog offers poetic reminiscences about the time the town was visited by an unexpected boon of sheep which arrived from the skies, briefly changing its fortunes.
Review by Taylor Jessen...
The story is narrated by an old man referred to as El Pep, a wizened old man talking to a documentary film crew in the living room of his hovel. He digresses a bit, and there are too many juicy details to fit into a simple precis, but his story is about how his village was once overrun by flying sheep. The sheep descended one day out of a fog ("Don't trust a town that hides in the fog," he notes). The day they came the old man was but a boy washing windows, and suddenly there they were, hanging around the tops of the olive trees. Some bright young thing starts capturing them and tying them to strings like balloons. But economic concerns intrude. They capture the sheep; they shear them; they live off the proceeds. Things improve. They make cheese, which must be tied down. They make sweaters, and then swing down the scythe while they hover 10' above their crops. They toast their prosperity at a wild party, and a child in wooly jumpers floats helpless up on the ceiling.
But nothing lasts forever -- and the sheep eventually return to the sky, doing slow circles in the billowing fog as the young boy chases them with a butterfly net. "But all that happened before, long before you came here to listen to me," the man tells his interviewer, just to clarify that this is a story about the past. "Would you fancy a cup of coffee... ? Do you want me to prepare it? Or maybe you'd prefer to wait for Rosario? Hers is better, of course... Rosario?" Rosario doesn't appear. Perhaps she's shy. Or hiding.
Full animated short
If anyone knows of the full short WITH subtitles,
please let me know -
I would love to see and understand the whole thing.
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