Coffee and Scribblings

Years ago, I watched this short film on Gobelins called Duo. I was obsessed with animation those days. And I loved many of the works students at Gobelins did. They were short animation films and simply powerful. I think I love short things a lot. Short stories, short films. Short trips. Short meetings. Short lectures. Things are better when short. They become precise.

Anyways this one is… 3 minutes and 31 seconds.

It is about two acrobats… circus performers. You see them performing and they are marvelous. Just beautiful.

It goes back and forth in time showing the stage and backstage. Behind the stage, we learn that they are breaking the duo and this is their last night.

The music & their performance (they use two red robes that they intricately sew together as they go on in their performance. The performance ends with a drop down of the second artist while the first one holds the robe while she is split and above) creates such a tension of the duo.

You just can feel two people’s relationship which is very much strained. A lot of hurt and disappointment that is just there and unspoken.

I didn’t need to know anything else. I didn't need to know why one is leaving the duo or how the other feels about it. I felt the replaced estrangement of the familiarity. awkwardness .

It is a curse, isn’t it? That you are not the same person with the person you love. That a person you love no matter how much you mean to one another remains another person.

And in reality, you really don’t have much say?

@coffeeandscribblings

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Years ago, I watched this short film on Gobelins called Duo. I was obsessed with animation those days. And I loved many of the works students at Gobelins did. They were short animation films and simply powerful. I think I love short things a lot. Short stories, short films. Short trips. Short meetings. Short lectures. Things are better when short. They become precise.

Anyways this one is… 3 minutes and 31 seconds.

It is about two acrobats… circus performers. You see them performing and they are marvelous. Just beautiful.

It goes back and forth in time showing the stage and backstage. Behind the stage, we learn that they are breaking the duo and this is their last night.

The music & their performance (they use two red robes that they intricately sew together as they go on in their performance. The performance ends with a drop down of the second artist while the first one holds the robe while she is split and above) creates such a tension of the duo.

You just can feel two people’s relationship which is very much strained. A lot of hurt and disappointment that is just there and unspoken.

I didn’t need to know anything else. I didn't need to know why one is leaving the duo or how the other feels about it. I felt the replaced estrangement of the familiarity. awkwardness .

It is a curse, isn’t it? That you are not the same person with the person you love. That a person you love no matter how much you mean to one another remains another person.

And in reality, you really don’t have much say?

@coffeeandscribblings

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