It’s not usually one hears of unbiased animation coming into the annals of world-breaking data, however such is the case for Nicolás P. Villarreal’s animated brief ON/OFF, featured by AWN again in 2021 following its Oscar qualification (and, after all, its quite a few awards!). The movie initially premiered in 2020 at varied movie festivals in Europe, Latin America, the USA, and Canada.
Created by the Villarreal – a California-based Argentinian movie and animation director, ON/OFF has been formally entered into the Guinness World Document for “Most awards gained by a brief movie.“
The charming seven-minute brief celebrates construction, self-discipline, and focus. It’s illustrated totally in colourful, summary shapes – together with the character design. The movie ON/OFF has apparently gained an astounding 1,125 awards.
Directed by Villarreal, the movie was produced by the crew on the Pink Clover Studios, producers of his different award-winning animated shorts, Pasteurized and Nieta. He’s at the moment engaged on a live-action function, with capturing slated to start the top of 2023.
Villarreal famous, “having obtained the Guinness Document offers the brief one other alternative to attain larger attain, affect, and significance with the message, which is a very powerful factor.”
ON/OFF conveys Villarreal’s view that present know-how and social media could be a vital distraction to artistic minds and self-discipline. It evokes audiences to query how a lot time they dedicate to their passions if they’re distracted by “ephemeral content material and interactions on social media and the way this could interrupt the artistic course of.”
It additionally speculates on what artistic geniuses like Frida Kahlo, Da Vinci, Beethoven, and Tesla would do if they’d entry to trendy know-how. ON/OFF makes use of surreal settings to reply this query, for instance, exhibiting Frida Kahlo in a contemporary context, balancing her life between creative inspiration and the distractions launched by know-how.
“Two completely different worlds that meet in a subway automobile that appears to be touring in the direction of the future of humanity,” Villarreal writes. “ON/OFF is an invite to struggle to attain our objectives. To depart behind any distraction that will get in the best way, and above all, to intention for the very best.”
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
