(experimental artist)
Amanda Woolrich
Shifting
2023 / Mexico -canada
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds
Animated short film in hybrid techniques:
Digital drawing, engraving, oil on glass and stopmotion
Direction and script: Amanda Woolrich
Production:Daniela Mujica / Productions 8
Edition: Christian Trujillo
Entertainers: Amanda Woolrich / Adriana Comi / Christian Trujillo
Music and sound design: Galo Ortiz
Voices: Muriel Ricard and Adriana Montes de Oca
Post production:Outpost MTL
Tutors: Tania de León, Saudhi Batalla, Rubén Imaz and Julio Mujica
Print engravings: Roberto Carrillo, Tania González, Yumali Torres and La Ceiba Gráfica by Rafael Ruíz
LOGLINE
“Trasiego” proposes a conversation between grandmother and granddaughter through their notebooks. Dialogue about 4 common themes: death, permanence, migration due to racism and memory.
SHORT SYNOPSIS
It is an intimate short film, which proposes a conversation between grandmother and granddaughter through their notebooks. Using the landscape as the main character and its transformations as a common thread; in which different moments, times and thoughts are addressed. Dialogue, debate and reaching agreements on 4 common themes: death, the permanence of experiences and thoughts through writing and drawings, migration due to racism and finally the loss of memories and memory.
LONG SYNOPSIS
Notebooks are usually a container for personal and introspective thoughts, which are rarely read or considered by someone other than the author. What would happen if two notebooks belonging to different people were found in the same space? Can they perhaps converse and empathize despite being so different and belonging to different times and languages?
Trasiego, is an intimate short film, which proposes a conversation between grandmother and granddaughter through their notebooks. Using the landscape as the main character and its transformations as a common thread; in which different moments, times and thoughts are addressed. Dialogue, debate and reaching agreements on 4 common themes: death, the permanence of experiences and thoughts through writing and drawings, migration due to racism and finally the loss of memories and memory.
From Poland, to Paris, and finally in Mexico, our protagonists, women, artists and engravers; They exchange and remember the passing of life...
SELECTIONS AT FESTIVALS
🇫🇷 France-->ANNECY / Short Film Corner Market de Cannes / Pleins Écrans
🇨🇦 Canada-->Sommets du cinema d´animation
🇲🇽 Mexico--> FICM Morelia International Film Festival / GIFF International Film Festival of Guanajuato / CutOut Fest / Shorts México / Experimental Film Guanajuato / Stop Motion Film Festival / Feratum Film Fest /MICMX International Film Festival / International Film Festival of Taxco.
🇦🇹 Austria--> Tricky Women Realities 2024
🇦🇺Australia--> AniMate 2024
🇭🇺 Hungary--> Paradise 2023
🇧🇷 Brazil--> Magic Lantern International Film Festival
AWARDS
🇲🇽 Mexico
-Best Mexican narrative short /CutOut Fest 2023
- LCI Seguros/CutOut Fest Award
-Young creators FONCA 2021 / Video-animation section.
-Alfredo Zalce National Painting and Engraving Biennial 2022 / Selected lithography
Official poster
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VISION OF THE DIRECTOR ON THE SHORT
Shifting arises when I find my grandmother's intimate notebooks, with notes, writings and drawings. When reading them I began to find drawings of spaces and thoughts that reminded me of a notebook that I filled out as a teenager. I began to read both notebooks and it seemed to me that they were reaching agreements and interacting by themselves, despite talking about different realities.
This meeting of thoughts made me reflect on the similarities we have as humans, the common fears and the stories of violence that are repeated regardless of the time or country in which they take place.
This animation was an opportunity to reconnect with my family, with my past and to share it with you. Show them a set of reflections on the strongest and most personal experiences that my grandmother and I have lived through.
The short does not have a linear story, or a narrative. The intention is to delve into the sensations and emotions that are experienced when reading the notes of two people, where there is honesty, disorder and lost ideas. The short is created to be seen multiple times, and each time find or understand different things. In the same way that happens when someone finds a personal notebook and leafs through it, with each reading new content, new meanings and even a different order to go through it are revealed.
TECHNIQUES USED IN ANIMATION
The animation is made with pure manual techniques:
Metal engraving, lithographs, carbon on paper, ink on glass and the stop motion technique to animate the original notebooks.
More than 1900 charcoal drawings, 500 ink on glass drawings, 40 photogravures and 5 lithographs were made to make the short film.
Techniques with a lot of material and gestural load were chosen, seeking to express the intensity of the sensations. The variety of techniques made it possible to have a very wide range of sensations and to be able to play with the change of emotions that developed between each thought or change of subject in the selection of the notebooks.
Ink on glass animation by Adriana Comi
Galo Ortíz / Christian Trujillo / Adriana Comi / Amanda Woolrich / Daniela Mujica
Animation in lithography made in the Ceiba Gráfica
gravure animation
animation in charcoal