Hardship of spareness is often its own spiritual guidance in both life and art. This truly arresting short by Edgar Alvarez provokes us to reexamine both. Subtle gesture is king in this piece of attention warping filmic bravado. Alvarez masterfully plays with scale, the pace and relation of time, depth of field and visceral perceptions- a technical way to say he is blowing our minds. Powerful. Read on to watch the making of and to hear from this avant garde humanist and multi-leveled filmmaker/ animator.
From Director Edgar Alvarez A.K.A. Alter Eddie:
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- The invisibles is a clay animated short of 6 minutes where the streets from LA will be the scenery, intending to make visible the invisible, showing through different characters a day in the lives of homeless people, the ones that survive, underlie, or live in a different reality due to their lunacy, youngsters with a broken American dream, war veterans, drug addicts, lonely people with no family, victims of the economic or emotional crisis. They become all of those that we don´t want to see many times because they remind us where we don´t want to be and where we are heading with our indifference.
I bumped with this project while walking on the streets, I got to see reality from another perspective in the city of LA where not having a car and moving around the streets carrying a backpack or bags represent a symbol of indigence and poverty, where the shopping cart a symbol of consumerism becomes the mobile house of many, where solitude becomes their only companion.
We are certainly now altered for the better. -Dragonframe
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