Gloria Victoria
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| Original title | Gloria Victoria |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 7 minutes |
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| Director | Theodore Ushev |
| script | Theodore Ushev |
| production | Marc Bertrand |
| music | Dmitri Shostakovich |
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Gloria Victoria is a 2013 Canadian animated short film directed by Theodore Ushev .
action
Out of fine lines that form beings only to collapse into them or to merge with other lines, geometric shapes develop, which pile up and finally fade. Abstract images alternate with drawings of grain workers and farmers, images of the dead being loaded onto carts, and the marching death, which finally precedes in a broad row. Images of airplanes over a city mix with images of armed soldiers and collages in which the word “blast” is finally varied. In the end, the chaos disintegrates, a hand held up on the horizon remains, the fingers fall off until the victory sign stops for a short time . Eventually the entire hand collapses and the sun goes down.
production
Gloria Victoria was created as part of a trilogy in which Ushev deals with art, technology as well as power and war, also against the background of his Bulgarian origins. After Tower Bawher (2006) and Drux Flux (2008), the film was the end of the trilogy with a focus on art and war. Ushev himself wrote that the film was about the "clash of civilizations and religions" and should depict the furor and brutality of the war.
The work on the film took two years. Gloria Victoria was animated on the computer. It begins as a 3D film, but becomes a 2D film in black and white within the plot at the outbreak of war. Ushev's aim was to bring the “flatness” of war closer to the viewer, so war is always “black and white. 2D. No depth. Hatred, war, that's all ”. The animation contains echoes of surrealism and cubism and quotes various works of art, including Pablo Picasso's Guernica . The idea for the film came to Ushev after reading Francis Fukuyama's book The End of History and the Last Man . The animation is based on Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony , op. 60, part 1: Allegretto, in a recording by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra.
The film was shown in 2013 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy and the Athens Film Festival, among others .
Awards
Gloria Victoria was nominated for the Cristal d'Annecy at the Festival d'Animation Annecy and won the festival's FIPRESCI award. In 2014, the film received an Annie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film. He was also nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Web links
- Gloria Victoria in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "It's about a clash of civilizations. A clash of religions. […] I wanted to make a film that expresses the rage and brutality of war. ”Cf. Dan Sarto: Theodore Ushev Talks Art, War, Conflict and Their Convergence in“ Gloria Victoria ” , awn.com, December 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Black and white. 2D. No depth. Hate, war, that's it. ”Dan Sarto: Theodore Ushe Talks Art, War, Conflict and Their Convergence in“ Gloria Victoria ” , awn.com, December 19, 2013.
- ↑ See Gloria Victoria on nfb.ca
- ↑ Interview with Theodore Ushev on animac.cat