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Blue Like a Gunshot/Bleu comme un coup de feu
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This short animated film is the visual transposition of a powerful poem about the barbarity of our world. Director Masoud Raouf is able to suggest intense emotions through his deft manipulation of oil paints, his sensitive use of colour and the dynamic gesture of his painting.
Raouf views war as a manifestation of humankind's tendency to self-destruct. He sees the absurd vanity of war as contrasting with the harmony and perpetuity of nature. In the film, this dichotomy is evoked through the interplay of shadow and light. The paint has been treated to make it very liquid so that it becomes an active, organic, almost palpable element of the pictorial matter, producing opposing impressions of disorder and harmony. Ultimately, nature, represented by the element of water, surges back, drowning out the chaos and barbarity.
Blue Like a Gunshot, a work of great delicacy and rich textures, is at the same time an eloquent cri de coeur about the state of our world.
Technique : Painting on glass
2003, 05 min 31 s
Awards
Award for Best Short Film - category: War and Peace
Vermont International Film Festival
October 13 to 18 2004, Burlington - USA
Seahorse Award for Best Short Documentaries
Moondance Film Festival
May 27 to 30 2004, Boulder - USA
Award for Best Animation
Soirée des Jutra
February 22 2004, Montréal - Canada
