"Return to the Dream" (2005)
Synopsis
"Return to the Dream" - (2005) from Avaray on Vimeo.
Personal Comments
After studying at CICE in 2004, I was offered the opportunity to make a final course project with a length of one minute. As other times, I decided going further and tell a first complete animation story in order to prove myself, test my abilities and learn as much as I could.
Animation stories tend to have very similar treatments; something uncommon are animation terror plots. I see terror genre as one based more on psychological elements than on a fullness of viscera or than a course of empty tensions created by film cut and sound. If you want to feel afraid, read short tales of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft ad other masters like them. If you want to feel more afraid, you can turn on T.V. and try understanding the society where we live. If you want to feel the strongest emotions, turn off T.V. explore your own mind, and find yourself.
The other main ingredient was the opportunity of explore dream´s world, melt it with reality and find ways of creating anguish and tension pulling everybody inner strings. That Scary-Dreamy mix is perhaps this short main value and at the same time, its bigger dead weight because damages fluent plot understanding after turning the story very metaphorical and primeval.
This short was a baptism of fire at Global Ilumination and many other 3D and Postproduction areas, which reveals itself in an irregular technical quality. Also, this project was realized under so extraordinary personal hard conditions that I wonder today how it could be finished despite all people that seemed to want to impending it.
The Best and The Worst
- The Best: visual appeal; the story reach its main goal; make you feel anxious.
- The Worst: animation is awful and damages severely the story; I had learned how to animate only a few months before. If some time in the future I animate again so bad, it would be criminal.
Pictures
General Info
| Title | "Vuelta al Sueño" |
| English Title |
"Return to the Dream" |
| Released | June 2005 |
| Duration |
7 minutes 49 seconds |
Production Info
| Director | Andrés Vidal Alarcón |
| Production Company |
CICE / Avaray Works |
| Writers |
Andrés Vidal Alarcón |
| Art: Modelling & Animation | Andrés Vidal Alarcón |
| Postprocessing & Film Cut |
Andrés Vidal Alarcón |
| Music |
Roberto Pérez Gayo |
| Sound Edition & Effects | Roberto Pérez Gayo |
| Distribution Company |
Lolita Peliculitas S.L. |
Awards & Official Selections
Award for the Best Animated Short Film at VII Certamen Nacional de Cortos en Vídeo "Villa de Estepona" (Spain)
2005 2nd Annual ION FilmFest at Los Angeles (USA)
Alcine35 (Spain)
II Certamen de Cortometrajes en Vídeo de Llodio (Cortarte’05) (Spain)
24 Enkarzine (Spain)
11 Concurso Estatal de “Ciutat de Valls” (Spain)
VI Festival de Cortometrajes Jerez 2005 (Spain)
5º Concurso de Cortos Animados Comarca de la Sidra (Spain)
VI Certamen de Cortometrajes de Animación de Ibercaja La Rioja (Spain)
II Festival Internacional de Cine de Animación de Basauri (Spain)
V Certamen de Cortometrajes de la Falla Corretgeria de Valencia (Spain)
10 Festival La Fila (Spain)
XXIX Certamen de Cine “PREMI CIUTAT DE TERRASSA” (Spain)
MFA International Film Festival Illes Balears (Spain)
VII Certamen Nacional de Cortos en Vídeo "Villa de Estepona" (Spain)
II Festival de Cortometrajes Macondo (II FCM) (Spain)
I Festival Internacional de Cine de Sax (Spain)
IV Festival de Cortometrajes Caóstica de Bilbao (Spain)
Eurovideo 05 (Spain)
I Corto-Festival de Cine y Video “Dunas” Fuerteventura 2006 (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Elche (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Artes y Culturas Digitales de Gran Canaria Canariasmediafest (Spain)
