Jo Jo in the Stars
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Jo Jo in the Stars |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 12 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Craste |
| script | Marc Craste |
| production |
Sue Goffe for Studio aka |
| cut | William Eagar |
Jo Jo in the Stars (also Jojo in the Stars or JoJo in the Stars ) is a British computer-animated short film directed by Marc Craste in 2003.
action
In a gloomy world, creatures - robot-like figures with rabbit ears - are drawn by the thousands to Madame Pica's arena, where she has been showing off monsters and deformed people for a long time. One creature is regularly among the spectators, but is not interested in the monsters, but in Jo Jo, a silver-sheathed trapezoid dancer with wings, who also flies through the arena during her performance. Like the other creatures on Madame Pica's show, Jo Jo is held in a cell after the performance. The hero waits after a performance and frees Jo Jo, where they are noticed by an inmate. They have not yet left the arena building when they dream their way into the starry sky together. They are finally surprised by Madame Pica and the other monsters and flee to a window that swings open. Both plunge into the depths, where Jo Jo can take hold of the hero. For a while they float next to the arena, but the hero finally slips away from Jo Jo's hand and falls into the depths. Jo Jo is thrown into the arena and remains motionless. A feather of her wings hovers to the ground and lands on the lifeless body of the hero. Lightning strikes at the moment of contact. It rains for the next ten years. The creatures lose interest in Madame Pica's monsters, so a new sensation is now being sought. A new monster is brought into the arena to meet Madame Pica, who is shocked to see the creature. It will be put on the show and put in a cell. This is next to the Jo Jos, which is now chained. Jo Jo recognizes in the deformed creature - his skin is scarred and one eye is missing - her heroes from back then. Both stand at the bars and Jo Jo carefully strokes the hero's head.
production
Craste had been working on a thematically similar film since the 1980s, but the project had failed for financial reasons. Sources of inspiration for Jo Jo in the Stars were Nick Cave's song Sad Waters , but also films like Eraserhead and Der Himmel über Berlin . Craste himself called his film "a love story with freaks".
The film music consists of the compositions Harlem in Brno ( Die Knödel , 1993), More Wings for Wheelers (Toru Yamanaka, 1998), Texas Yellow (Urchin, 2001) and Samuel Barber's Andante of the Violin Concerto op.14 (1939).
Awards
Jo Jo in the Stars won the 2004 BAFTA in the Best Animated Short Film category . The film won the award for best short film at the 3D Festival in Copenhagen and in 2004 it received the Prix du Meilleur Film d'Animation of the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand . In 2005, Jo Jo in the Stars won the Cartoon d'Or of the European Cartoon Forum.