For the second year, Havas New York has partnered with the Brooklyn Film Festival to call on filmmakers to showcase their art. This year the campaign eloquently makes the case that artificial intelligence can’t replace filmmakers.
Yes, AI can write, create images, edit and animate–raising concerns among human creators. But this “Stories About Life by Those Who Have Lived It” campaign shows that the human experience cannot be replicated artificially. And that’s at the heart of two films for the Brooklyn fest, including this one titled “Gil’s Grills,” in which a woman grapples with a mouthful that she can’t control–so she has to grin and bear it.
Nicolas Gordon directed via production house Kin Films, demonstrating that humanity is what sets filmmakers apart from AI.
Client Brooklyn Film Festival Marco Ursino, executive director; Susan Mackell, director of development; Galen Bremer, production manager. Agency Havas New York Dan Lucey, chief creative officer; Adam Lock, creative director; Sebastien Thomas, Nick Lindo, associate creative directors; Liberty Leben, sr. designer; Melissa T Gifrere, head of production; B Collins, sr. producer. Production Kin Films Nicolas Gordon, director; Dustin Highland, producer; Ben Thorn, production manager; Lizzy Walker, 1st AD; JD Butler, DP; Lisa Garcia, production designer; Brian Marquez, art director; Krisse Torgesson, stylist. Editorial Final Cut Antonio Gomez-Pan, editor; Rebecca Mitchell, head of production; Suzy Ramirez, exec producer; Kelly Budish, producer; Julio Samaniego, assistant editor. Telecine The Mill Logan Highlen, colorist; Baptiste Carrara, Erwini Pasia, color assist; Brandee Probasco, head of production; Krista Staudt, exec producer; Jackson Winkler, producer. Sound Machine Sound Matgej Oreskovic, exec producer; Andi Lewis, sr. producer; James Cobbold, Alex Bingham, sound design & mix; Chas Langston, Michelle Covio, assistant engineers. Conform Significant Others Justin Burkman, managing director; Alyssa St. Vincent, exec producer; Gwynne Evans Reid, head of production; Dirk Greene, ECD; Phil Apostol, lead Flame artist; Phil Brooks, GFX artist; Kogan Li, VFX assistant; Kyla Amols, producer; Hoa Vu, production coordinator. Music Duotone Jordan Lieb, Brad Fischer, composers; Ross Hopman, exec producer; Gio Lobato, sr. producer; Peter Nashel, creative director. Cast Ellie Suh; Thomas Lennon, narrator.
Blinkink’s Raman Djafari Directs, Curates Coldplay’s “feelslikeimfallinginlove”
Director Raman Djafari of the Blinkink studio curated an international team of 15 artists to craft an animated odyssey for Coldplay’s latest single, “feelslikeimfallinginlove.”
This is a story about two souls finding each other repeatedly in many different forms. Using several animation styles (stop motion, 2D, 3D, digital painting, oil pastels on paper, watercolor, laser cut felt!), the pair travel between worlds in a three-part narrative: Longing, Searching, and Finding.
The music video was a huge global collaboration involving contributors from Switzerland, the U.S., France, Germany, the U.K., Sweden, the Netherlands, and South Korea. Each artist had their own segment to animate, showcasing an incredible breadth of international talent.
A narrative framework was created that allowed each animator to express their unique style with seamless transitions that take the audience through newly constructed worlds.
The transitions required meticulous planning, demonstrating the team’s incredible attention to detail. Each animator initially created the start and end of their scenes, enabling the creation of 16 bespoke transitions that smoothly shift from a pencil-drawn 2D section to a stop-motion sequence of two crabs slow-dancing.
“Animation is so capable of speaking in the language of our thoughts and emotions,” said Djafari. “That is, fluently transcending between feelings, changing perspectives, reflecting the way we as people experience the world or even our dreams. I wanted to make a video that expresses this through the many forms of animation.”
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