Luminaris (2011)

Directed by

Juan Pablo Zaramella

Genre

animation, family

Country

Argentina

Runtime

6 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a retro-futuristic Buenos Aires, a man working with light bulbs discovers he can control light itself. A woman with a similar power joins him, and they use their abilities to transform their world into a magical kinetic machine.

whimsicalsurrealclevercharmingrhythmicvisually inventivelighthearted

What happens

Luminaris is a 2011 short film directed by Juan Pablo Zaramella, which uses the pixilation technique to blend real actors with animated objects. The film won awards at 324 international film festivals, including the Woodstock Film Festival and Annecy International Animated Film Festival. It won the FIPRESCI prize and made the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The film incorporates several styles, such as art deco, tango, surrealism, and neorealism. The production of the film took more than 2 and a half years, due to the difficulty of combining pixilation techniques with the movement of natural sunlight. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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