Neomorphus
Bring a final animated short to dismiss the month of May. A short film that is very different from what we put in the early hours of the day (for that was done with computer animation while this is made possible by the very old and weird technique of “stop-motion”), and I do not know very well if it fits better the adjective dark or beautiful and fascinating, because this new work of the Brazilian study Animatorio kids how wonderful mixture with very disturbing (and stimulating) easily. This is the second in a series that have been titled ‘Praepostere’, in seeking to establish a visual and thematic line, and in studying the cycles of evolution in nature. This is much longer than the first and more interesting.
‘Neomorphus’ presents a very careful staging, and a fertile imagination when inventing creatures with very different objects, which die back each time to transform to survive. As promising starting point is exploited to the limit, overflowing with imagery, and finds its echoes in the Russian school of “stop-motion” and with many nods to horror films known to all, creating some truly disturbing images, almost nightmarish, demonstrating the talent of this team of creators. Enjoy it; it is a very thorough job.