Divine Fate - Ishu Patel (1993)

Destino Divino

English / Inglés (sin subtítulos)

El mundo de las puertas divinas es un mundo creado por la magia y sus criaturas, cuya matriz es un portal esmeralda que otorga todo aquello que se desee, teniendo como condición extraer sólo lo necesario y dejar algo bueno a cambio. Entonces del cielo caerán dos grises seres antropomorfos, quienes serán bien recibidos por la matriz, otorgándoseles el cumplimiento de sus deseos. Sin embargo esa forma humana es insaciable, codiciosa y está abrumada por la envidia, cualidades que alejarán a estos dos seres de la magia primigenia.

Este es la penúltima obra de Patel y, desde lo personal, la de mayor fuerza y profundidad metafórico-espiritual en cuanto a la condición humana se refiere.

"Divine Fate plays again with such big ideas as: what is free will? Can mankind be responsible for its own preservation? Can humans be generous? Not as successful as Paradise or Afterlife, the film still uses characteristic Patel devices. The mathematical precision of his technique combined with his ability to create luminous images marks Patel as an artist of the first rank."

(www3.nfb.ca)

"ISHU PATEL is an acclaimed animation film director, animator and educator whose films have received theatrical and television distribution worldwide. His many international awards include two Oscar Nominations, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the British Academy Award, and the Grand Prix at both Annecy and the Montreal World Film Festival.

Born in Gujarat, India, Ishu Patel graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda and completed his graduate studies in Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and advanced Graphic Design at Allegemeine Gewerbschule in Basel, Switzerland. A Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship brought him to the National Film Board of Canada.

Under the NFB banner, developing his own animation techniques Ishu Patel produced and directed numerous award-winning films such as The Bead Game, Afterlife, Top Priority, Divine Fate and Paradise.

In addition to his films for the NFB, Ishu Patel has co-produced animation with NHK of Japan and Channel Four of Britain, and contributed numerous French-language segments to “Sesame Street” for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Formerly a tenured professor at the School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ishu Patel presently has his studio, Image par Image, in Canada where he continues to produce animation projects compatible with his styles and techniques. Recently completed projects include four TV spots for Nippon Oil of Japan (ENEOS), and a 60 second TV spot, “Moondust”, for the United Airlines Beijing Olympic campaign, “It’s Time to Fly”."

(http://ishupatel.com)

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Une mission éphémère - Piotr Kamler (1993)

One Ephemeral Mission / Una Misión Efímera

No Dialogue / Sin Diálogos

Una cápsula viene del infinito espacio conteniendo un potencial humanoide cibernetizado dentro, quien se irá formando autónomamente mediante la conjugación y constante movimiento de las formas que yacen dentro la esfera; hasta que, una vez completo el humaniode, comenzará a experimentar el manejo de las formas puras, modificándolas a su antojo mediante un extraño artilugio.

El carácter cíclico y creacionista de esta construcción será, talvez, una evocación al infinito; a ese continuo proceso que algunos llaman "eterno retorno".

Acompañado por la música de Bernard Parmegiani, un pionero en el campo de la experimentación con música electrónica,"Une mission éphémère" fue la última obra elaborada por el artista polaco. Este film combina el uso de Stop-motion y animación por ordenador, logrando así, una cabal simbiosis entre música, imágen y movimiento.

"Piotr Kamler was born in Warsaw in 1936. He is a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. In 1959 he went to Paris to continue his art studies. it was there that he came into contact with Research Department at ORTF (directed by Pierre Schaeffer) and began to collaborate with "concrete" musicians such as Xenakis on experimental shorts (musical abstract films and "fables"). The ORTF Research Department which was later taken over by INA, was a hothouse for talent, enabling diverse artists such as Peter Foldes, Robert Lapoujade, Jacques Espagne, Jacques Rouxel, Andre Martin and Michel Boschet, Jacques Colombat, Jean-Francois Laguionie, Henry Lacam and Kamler to carry out a large number of bold and innovative personal projects.

With astonishing regularity, Kamler came up with no less than 8 unusual short films between 1962 and 1973. The films themselves were incorrectly described as science fiction-in fact they were much closer to the universe of Borges than to Space Opera. Kamler, who created strange, improbable but plausible world, began to explore a whole range of different visual techniques. Le Trou (1968), Araignelephant (1968), Delicieuse Catastrophe (1971), Coeur de secours (1973) all won awards at major film festivals (Cracow, New York, Mamaiea , Melbourne...). After Le Pas (Grand prix at Annecy 1975) Kamler went underground for a while until he resurfaced with the full-length feature Chronopolis (1982).

Kamler's animated cinema suggests a singular variety of science fiction; it was he who provided the original idea for the Shadoks TV series. Completely unalike to more conventionally linear and text-based narratives, Kamler's films instead explore a series of dynamic visual motifs. Typically, the conclusion of these films is less suggestive of resolution, than it is of recurring episode. What is most striking in all his films is the variety of visual invention that Kamler brings to each work - he is as assured working with clay (as in his feature, Chronopolis) as he is with ink and paper, or even animating digitally on computer (in the most recent work in this program, Une mission ephemere). These visual flourishes embellish some of the most amazing animated films ever made - an achievement which won his Le Pas the Grand Prix of the 1975 Annecy Animation Festival.

(http://timelostimeregained.blogspot.com/)

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