Kirsten lepore short film 2010 lannee
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Sometimes, as is the case with this film, I’ll imagine up my own version of a natural world which I’ve completely fabricated.
KF: What are you working on now?
KL: I have a few small film and music video ideas floating around that I’d love to start working on. Dead mouse hat anyone? Bottle is a film which showcases Lepore’s rapport with current culture, but also her precocious handle on timeless storytelling.
This combination has earned the film due praise—it was my favorite film of that Vimeo Fest, though I’m ashamed I hadn’t caught it earlier, having enjoyed Lepore’s prior film, the cupcake odyssey Sweet Dreams, so much.
Hopefully they won’t take over 2 years to complete like this film, ha!
Keep up with Kirsten Lepore (and watch the rest of her films) at kirstenlepore.com.
But, ultimately, I’m attempting to use those materials to create a naturalistic product. Bottle is quite a different film however, even as it maintains her distinctive voice. It came at the height of America’s urban cupcake-craze and perfectly nailed hipsterdom’s “sweetspot” for irony and for cutesy materialist ornament.
The desire of the characters for physical interaction rather than the mere continuation of bottle-messaging can be read as a statement to this effect.
However the short film would not have garnered the affection it has received simply as a document of exquisite taste or even insight, instead it is the depth of feeling the two abstract masses are able to engender that endears the audience.
Language is also limiting — and by trying to tell stories more visually without language, I think I’m able to reach a wider (and non-English speaking) audience.
KF: You seem to like juxtaposing natural materials with synthetic ones, is that intentional or something you think about when planning?
KL: I think I try to keep things as natural as possible, but am forced to resort to synthetic materials when there are no natural options available — like using silicones and urethanes for casting elements, for example.
However don’t let this lengthy review discourage you from enjoying the film. It is a clever sequence and the character’s pleasure is infectious, overcoming the inherent difficulty presented by the amorphous character design and the film’s brief run-time. Each are endowed with sentience and mobility and come to know each other by trading details of their lives through a floating bottle.
What made you want to collaborate with other artists to make characters for Move Mountain? The heart of the film’s skill in this regard is a unique process by which the characters are personified. She just has to be. The waterfalls were actually a huge challenge to figure out. Bottle is a simple yet well-told story of two sentient lifeforms - one made from sand and one made from snow - who strike up a long distance relationship by sharing objects from their respective habitats in a bottle thrown into their mutual ocean.
I have seen the world play a role in stop-mo, the graffiti of Blu notably, yet he creates representations on the world, not of the world as Lepore does here.
click to see a short "making-of" video
This larger cultural flow which Bottle latches on to can be seen as reactionary, a consequence of the mediated and seemingly inauthentic substance of modern life.
Through the co-opting of gifts into their bodies, Sand and Snow progressively individualize themselves, allowing for deeper attachment by the viewer. Winner of the Vimeo Audience Award for Animation this year, it tells the story of two unlikely penpals; one a mound of sand, the other a pile of snow. Sweet Dreams is set-based and delivers a cute and controlled menagerie of perfect taste.
They’re a clear, flexible urethane that I tinted and cast with a wire inside so they can move and bend.