Zoltan Hovath, Swiss/France
Animation, 2007, 11'
The beach's bar is crowded, full of high colored people, tattooed and strong. A girl and a man meet and go to the beach. They are actors, filmed with a neat photo. But when they start their affair on the beach, something happens. Their tatooes get alive, start to move on their skin while they are making love on the beach. The girl has a siren on her chest, while the body of the man is full of agressive tatooes : centaurius, scorpio, taurus... While the bodies encounters so do the tatooes, representants of the untold meeting of soul, and the mythological fight that starts tells us the story of an orgasm.
Showing the orgasm is impossible. Words are weaks, and actors can't let us enter in their mind deep enough. Cinema is impotent for this matter, and realisators have experienced various way to metaphrise it. This film is astonishing by the way it tries to show us more than the bodies. The story of the bodies is common, while the story of the « surface » seems much deeper than this one. The centaurius aims the siren with his arrows, the salamander hug her to death, the tiger swallow her... Shall she fight back or abandon herself ? There is no fear in her innocent eyes, is it a fight or danse ? The actress looks like she feels the presence and the movements of the siren, that embodies her soul, and the pleasure, running on and under her skin.
Technically, the animations were created and incrusted on the actors skin. The result is very convicing, animation seems really projeted on the naked skins, with fluidity and a fusion close to perfection. Both images are /melanging/, and the spectator's eye recieve both stories. Something was shared.
Both animations and real filmed support have a care for precision and esthetic. Lights are imaginatives and some plans surprising. Beyond the very concrete story, and scenes depicted, there is no vulgarity, no shoking scene. Of course this is not an animation for children, but this film is, far away from any ordinary erotism, a real experience of cinema, quite a lesson of animation, of storytelling and of poetry.
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