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Shift

Country: USA, Language: English, 5 mins

  • 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