N+2: Eine murul - Priit Pärn (1987)

02 mayo 2012

Eine murul - Priit Pärn (1987)

Desayuno sobre la hierba / Breakfast on the grass

Estonio/Estonian | Subs: Castellano (propios), English

Basado en el cuadro de Monet "Desayuno en la hierba", se presenta en cinco fragmentos animados, de diferente factura y estilos, en los que se aprecia la degradación moral del ser humano. Con cada nuevo segmento, la historia mejora, se enriquece con los cruces de unas con otras y con los diferentes aportes de estilo.

(Narkvive)

Priit Pärn es un polémico autor estonio y uno de sus principales autores actualmente. Sus obras no dejan indiferente a nadie, pero ignorarlo implica dejar de lado uno de los más importantes autores del último tercio del siglo XX del este de Europa.

Ecólogo de profesión originaria, Pärn entró a formar parte de Eesti Joniisfilm, el estudio de animación del estado soviético estonio casi por casualidad. Su fuerte personalidad y su estilo irreverente produjo una serie de importantes cambios en el estudio, poniendo un punto y final a una animación excesivamente disneyana y seria. Su dibujo, anárquico, fuertemente satírico y con un punto surrealista, es fácilmente reconocible y las nuevas generaciones de animadores estonios no han podido desprenderse de su estela.

(Animaholic)

Pärn's "Breakfast on the Grass" (1988) is considered by many to be one of the masterpieces of animation. In examining a few moments in the daily lives of four Estonians, Pärn trenchantly critiques life in the Soviet Union by giving viewers a rare glimpse of the absurdities of Communist society and what people endure on a daily basis just to survive. As with "Triangle," "Breakfast on the Grass" astonished Russian audiences with its frank portrait of modern Soviet life.

"I think the general audience was not prepared for this kind of animation," recalls Pärn. "It is a description of a very concrete society told in a realistic way using a dramatic structure that is closer to a live-action feature. But the story is performed using the tools of animation -- visual gags, metamorphosis and different drawing styles. Usually so-called serious stories are dark, heavy, slow and boring. I try to make my serious film funny, multileveled and ironic. I think this fusing of the serious and comic confused people."

An illegitimate conceptual crossbreeding of Lenny Bruce, George Grosz and Jean-Luc Godard, Pärn's animated films are bitingly funny, complex explorations of the effects of ideological systems on human beings.

His work has received roaring applause and fancy awards, but like much of independent animation, Pärn's films are rarely shown outside the festival circuit. In addition to being an animator, Pärn is also a noted graphic artist, teacher and lecturer whose influence is so far-reaching that students from Finland, Switzerland and America travel to Estonia to work with him. And later this year, he'll receive the prestigious ASIFA award from the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation, which is given to an individual who has made significant contributions to the art of animation.

pickpocket (DXC)