The boys' flat share

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Movie
German title The boys' flat share
Original title Roughhouse
Country of production United Kingdom of
France
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 15 minutes
Rod
Director Jonathan Hodgson
script Jonathan Hodgson
production Jonathan Hodgson
Richard Van Den Boom
music Stuart Hilton
camera Jonathan Hodgson
cut Zurine Ainz
Robert Bradbrook
synchronization

The Boys' WG is a British - French animated short film directed by Jonathan Hodgson from 2018.

action

Jez, Shirley and the Narrator have been best friends since they left school in Birmingham . In the early 1980s they moved to Liverpool together to study art. The friends' flat found Shirley, who has a past as a football hooligan but was never violent towards his friends. Mr. Gibson, called Gibbo, who like the three of them is also an art student, lives above the flat. Gibbo becomes part of the gang and the young men begin to play pranks on each other. Nobody washes the dishes and nobody cooks.

One day when the landlord tries to collect the rent, it turns out that Shirley has no money. He begins to work off the debts in the shared apartment by washing up and tidying up, but after a while doesn't feel like it anymore. He often goes to parties and drinks a lot; He never has any money for rent. This causes displeasure among friends. The harassment within the group is now concentrated on him, with Gibbo resorting to increasingly drastic means. At the party for art student Rosa, who Shirley is in love with, Gibbo teases her. Shirley is outraged that Jez and the narrator didn't stand up for him. When Shirley is supposedly asleep, Jez and the narrator confirm that Shirley was actually never her boyfriend. Shirley overhears it and runs away - just before he can throw himself off a bridge in front of a train, Jez and the narrator can stop him. Shirley admits that he can endure any harassment as long as he knows that they are still friends.

Shirley's suicide attempt changes everything: he himself starts working in a pub to earn money. The friends stand behind him and also defend him from Gibbo, who wants to keep bullying Shirley. They waive the repayment of the rental debt. The narrator admits that he still occasionally hears the sound of the train Shirley was about to throw himself in front of.

production

Jonathan Hodgson began working on The Boys' WG in the late 2000s. The plot of the film is based on actual events, with Hodgson being one of the flatmates harassing her roommate while studying. The film is dedicated to Martin, the victim of bullying at the time. The boys' flat was originally planned as a documentary, but Hodgson changed some events and also the names and looks of the students. He decided to present the film through the narrator like a story that someone would tell in a pub.

Hodgson drew the backgrounds of the film and gave the characters' designs. The animation style is based on drawings by Hodgson from his student days, whereby he describes the style as being influenced by German Expressionism . He implemented the first drafts on paper. The animation of the film was created under the direction of Gabriel Jacquel in the animated film studio Train-Train in Lille . The drawings were hand-animated on the computer in 2D. The animators worked with TV Paint, Photoshop and After Effects , among others . In addition to the dialogues, the coloring of the scenes is central, so Hodgson used warm colors for positive scenes and colder, muted colors for negative scenes, with two colors often in contrast to one another. Hodgson named the lithographic work of the British artist Edward Bawden (1903–1989) as a model for the watercolors overlapping layers of paint in the film that result in new color mixtures . The color spectrum used for the party scenes at Rosa is based on the colors of Hodgson's earlier film Nightclub .

It is Hodgson's first film to be made in a French co-production due to a lack of scholarships in Great Britain. In addition to Richard Van Den Boom's French film production company Papy3D Productions, Hodgson's own company Hodgson Films also financed the boys' flat share .

The boys' flat had its world premiere on June 28, 2018 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . The German premiere was on November 1, 2018 as part of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film , the film being shown in English with German subtitles. ARTE showed the film under the title Die Jungs-WG on December 8, 2018 as part of the program Kurzschluss . The film ran in 2019, among others, in the competition of the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand and the Animafest Zagreb .

Awards

The boys' WG won the BAFTA in the category Best Animated Short Film in 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alex Dudok de Wit: Interview: Jonathan Hodgson on his latest film 'Roughhouse' - a raw portrayal of bullying . skwigly.co.uk, January 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Abla Kandalaft: ClermontFF2019: Interview with Jonathan Hodgson, director of Roughhouse . mydylarama.org.uk, March 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Alex Dudok de Wit: BAFTA Short Animation Nominees: How Each Film Was Developed Visually . cartoonbrew.com, January 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ roughhouse on edfilmfest.org.uk.
  5. ↑ roughhouse on filmfinder.dok-leipzig.de
  6. ↑ roughhouse on film-directory.britishcouncil.org
  7. ↑ Overview of the films in the competition for the animation film award on animafest.hr