Children who float in the sky like kites, a table tennis player who plays against the wind, hairdos like flags… Those are the sorts of things we find in the world created for this short film, where the wind is so strong that it shifts the centre of gravity for creatures and things. This state-of-affairs sets the scene for a universe with a pleasingly poetic and absurd look and feel. The characters are all well accustomed to their reality and have adapted their daily lives to the powerful force driving against them. So, when the wind subsides, causing stuff to become unbalanced or fall, things get really absurd and slapstick. We find out that the wind has been generated mechanically by a hand-controlled machine – it’s as if, in their wisdom, the characters had decided they needed a bit of adversity to keep everything in order.
The director of this graduation film, which was selected for numerous festivals around the world and even scooped a few awards, offers us, in just a few minutes, a funny and very well-conceived fable. It could give rise to interesting thoughts but, first and foremost, it is to be cherished for its innovative look and feel, enhanced by very stylish graphic work. That work, distilled to simple and geometric parts, makes the film all the more suitable for preschool children. In short, this is a wonderfully hair-raising short film!
