30 October 2008

La Antena (2007)



Esteban Sapir's "La Antena", is a monochrome movie from Argentina that is silent, or almost silent!

It has a deeply weird story that appears to have a number of interpretations, or variations on the theme:
THE INIQUITIES OF MEDIA OF MIND-CONTROL



La Antena brilliantly blends live action and animation to create a beautiful expressionist vision which referred to the early days of cinema.

La Antena its full of amazing machinery,evil henchmen even a blonde heroine which are all present whilst on-screen captions take on a life of their own in a series of playful and ingenious jokes.

"LA ANTENA IS AN AMAZING SPECTACLE OF SIGHT AND SOUND"

The style of La Antena is similar to the style I want my final piece to have. The combination between live action and animation is not used only in a way to produce more interesting visuals but it adds to the story too. Each medium gives a different meaning and feeling as the story develops.

Also, I like that the animation bits are all have "live-action" background and throughout the whole film there isn't a single moment that you can detach the one from the other.

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