Shift
- Director: Juan Carlos Zaldívar
- Writer: Anja Marais; Juan Carlos Zaldívar
- Producer: Juan Carlos Zaldívar
CGiii Comment
Experimental and rather savage.
For an acquired taste.
Trailer...
SHIFT SFC Trailer from Phonograph Films on Vimeo.
The(ir) Blurb...
SHIFT follows the life of a character who is born from a tree and weaves a female skin out of leaves. Attracted by a distant cry, the character wonders out to find the source of the song but it is frightened and returns home. Later that night, its face is stolen by a wild dog. The character is left wandering the landscape reflecting its environment and looking for home, with a mirror in place of its face. The character's vision returns, however, in an unsuspecting turn of events. SHIFT as a short film poem inspired by human search for identity (personal, cultural or otherwise) and the beauty of transforming loss. Using stop-motion, the film is constructed of over 10,000 photographs taken over a year and a half.
Cast & Characters
Anja Marais;
Juan Carlos Zaldivar