We've never seen a short like this before. Vimeo has crowned its first animated champion. The Vimeo Staff Pick Award took its act to Animafest Zagreb in Croatia last week where they awarded Rachel Gutgarts a shiny new piece of hardware for her short A Love Letter to the One I Made Up. The film begs the question, does the '"perfect" partner exist or can they only live on in our dreams? A Vimeo curator explained that it's the way Gutgarts crafts her film, "utilizing repetitive images, carefully chosen words and a limited, but deliberate color palette," that drew the team to A Love Letter. "This short film explores the recesses of our need for connection and our most seductive relationship fantasies. Poignant and frustrating, this abstract and painstakingly animated silkscreened piece manages to be immediate, meditative, and fleeting all at once," they expanded. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 15 June, 2018