Terminus

Trevor Cawood, Canada

Fiction, 2007, 8'

A man is waiting for his metro. Comes a strange creature, made of granite cylinder (this kind of thing that prevent cars to go in some streets) comes to him, and start a danse. The man doesn't want to danse with it and try to escape. But now, he is cursed : the creature will follow him. Anywhere. Forever. No matter how hard he tries to escape, it will find him. So he has to deal with. Until he sees other people like him : one followed by a creature made of road signs, one followed by a kind of escalator...

The use of a very concrete material for animation prevent from the feeling of « ireality » of 3D creations in a filmed world. And there is something absurd, but not without sense, of these creature made from urban material. Are they double of the people, are they the emissaies of a bored city searching for distractions, or creatures of judgement ?

Distracting and inventive, a film without speeches and theory, but a curious universe with its rules...