Big Bang Big Boom

This is a 10min film by Blu, from Italy, with striking avant-garde music and sound by Andrea Martignoni. This film is really fresh. Howver well its point comes across about "evolution and its possible consequences," Blu dazzled with the ambition of a project in which stop motion is used to bring animation through a form of graffiti and street chalk art and painting onto walls and silos and parking lots moving out over a whole vast urban landscape. The invasion of animation drawing into real space is a terrific effect. Reptiles and prehistoric critters morph and move over walls. Plastic trash on the beach also comes to life and rolls up into a big ball. Human figures pop in and out, threatened by drawings. Art and life coexist in literal terms. Blu makes the world his canvas. Nothing parochial or inbred here. You have to see the film in action to grasp its real effect. Stills don't do it. This energetic and original film won the 2011 Annency Special Jury Award.