Его жена курица / Hen, His Wife
Sin Diálogos / No Dialogue
Una extraña familia convive plácidamente entre sus tres integrantes: un enfermizo hombre azul, una gran gallina y una antropomórfica oruga. Todo se mantendrá en calma hasta que alguien llama a la puerta; una tremenda visita que destruirá el mundo rutinario en el que vivían estos personajes.
Este film fue ganador de los premios:
Ottawa 90 International Animation Festival, Grand Prize; The Second Shanghai International Animation film Festival 1992, Special Jury Prize;
International Animation Festival Krok, Kiev 90, Best Film in category: productions over 10 min;
Nominación en 1990 al Palma de Oro, al Mejor Cortometraje Animado, en Cannes, entre otros.
"Nacido en ucrania en 1954, Igor Kovalayov, co-fundador de la legendaria escuela de animación experimental de Moscú, es un prestigioso animador que basicamente es conocido por ser el creador de series tan famosas como "Rugrats", "AAAHH!! Real Monsters" o "Duckman".
En 1991, Kovalyov aceptó una invitación de Gabor Csupo, para trabajar en el estudio de Klasky-Csupo en Hollywood, en donde trabajó en la serie animada "AAAHH!! Real monsters" y dirigió posteriormente la película basada en la serie, "Rugrats" de la cual es también creador.
Kovalyov mantiene una interesante relación con el estudio, el cual le financia sus cortos más personales a cambio de trabajos más comerciales y este se beneficia del prestigio que suele acompañar los trabajos del animador ucraniano.
Menos conocida resulta sin embargo, su faceta como animador experimental e independiente, con una interesantíma trayectoria que le ha valido una infinidad de premios internacionales por cortos como "Hen His Wife" (1989, Pilot Studio, Moscow), "Andrei Svislotsky" (Pilot Studio, Moscow, 1991) "Bird in the Window" (1996, Klasky Csupo, USA) "Flying Nansen", (2000, Klasky Csupo), "Milch" (2004, Klasky Csupo) . (...)
(...) Realizado en 1989, Yego zhena kuritsa marca sin duda, algunas de las obsesiones recurrentes del personal estilo de Kovalyov.
Sin llegar a alcanzar el grado de complejidad de Andrei Svislotsky, Hen his Wife (titulo occidental) roza la pura abstraccion. Como en A. Svislotsky el argumento es casi inexistente y se convierte en un pretexto para desarrollar su orgánico universo personal, lleno de comportamientos ritualizados, a menudo absurdos, donde detalles aparentemente insignificantes acaban adquiriendo sentido en el conjunto. (...)"
pickpocket (DivX Clásico)
"A troubled, but apparently normal household is shattered when a masked
stranger arrives without warning and alerts the husband that his wife is
actually a hen."
"A long-married couple, somewhere past middle age, live a quiet routine
of half-contentment. He sits in a big easy chair reading the paper and
puts a (very beautiful, haunting, folk-operatic/cantorial)song on his
record player, using a wind-up blue bus instead of a needle. She
refills the hot water in his footbath and puts down food for the "dog,"
a kind of caterpillar-dachshund with a leery human head (their
eraserhead son?. He is a swollen, blue-skinned, balding lumpen-man. And
she, beneath her apron and polka dot print dress is... a Hen.
This evades the notice of the husband until one evening, the routine is disturbed by a visitor, perhaps the husband's younger brother, a mustachioed playboy "d'un certain age" clad in a black suit. Also of heavy build, but looks more healthy, with human skin tone. He has brought as a gift a box filled with ladybugs, a treat much enjoyed by the little "pet." As soon as the bustle of introduction has settled, the man notices that his blue brother's wife has become... a Hen.
This evades the notice of the husband until one evening, the routine is disturbed by a visitor, perhaps the husband's younger brother, a mustachioed playboy "d'un certain age" clad in a black suit. Also of heavy build, but looks more healthy, with human skin tone. He has brought as a gift a box filled with ladybugs, a treat much enjoyed by the little "pet." As soon as the bustle of introduction has settled, the man notices that his blue brother's wife has become... a Hen.
Not an uncommon occurrence in marriage, particularly among the peoples
of Eastern Europe (I should know!). When the wife leaves the room, he
intimates this discovery to his blue brother in an extended whisper.
The effect of his comment sets in motion the film's dramatic arc.
Kovalyov is a master animator of the uncanny- the familiar made strange- and his all-too-human monstrosities convulse across the screen with the expressive depth of actors in a silent melodrama, but more, and stranger. Strangeness is the property liberally dribbled onto the reality rendered here in pen and ink- depth, rhythm, texture, cause and effect- all shift and shiver as the laws of cartoon physics, and metaphysics, jump and jive to the tempo of this universal human story."
Kovalyov is a master animator of the uncanny- the familiar made strange- and his all-too-human monstrosities convulse across the screen with the expressive depth of actors in a silent melodrama, but more, and stranger. Strangeness is the property liberally dribbled onto the reality rendered here in pen and ink- depth, rhythm, texture, cause and effect- all shift and shiver as the laws of cartoon physics, and metaphysics, jump and jive to the tempo of this universal human story."
Ferenc Marhalin (IMDb)
LINK
https://www.rapidshare.com/files/1883640451/1990Yegozhenakuritsa.I.Kovalyov.www.nplus2.org.avi
