Negative Space | Oscar Nominated Stop-Motion Animation | Short of the Week

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What it means to lose a loved one told through the art of a well-packed suitcase.
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Negative Space
A Film by Tiny Inventions (Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter)
www.tinyinventions.com
Right at the outset, let me lay my cards on the table-this is a nearly perfect short. I qualify that statement with the “nearly”, only because I do not believe that art is a competition towards a platonic ideal. Though our site has taken on the challenge of serving as an arbitrator in questions of artistic and entertainment value, I still tend towards relativism in these matters. Taste is personal, and besides, perfection is often incompatible with innovation and risk-taking. Some of my favorite short films are decidedly imperfect and all the more enjoyable to me because of it.
But back to the point-Negative Space is practically perfect. Like so many shorts I admire, the film incorporates multitudes of seemingly contradictory qualities: at a mere 5 minutes, there is really no wasted space, and yet it is exceedingly spare. Based off a celebrated Ron Koertge poem that clocks in at only 150 words, it allows for moments of subtlety and contemplation that are so necessary in visual storytelling-those perfectly blocked shots, held for an extra moment, that drive home the rich emotional interiority of its characters. It’s simultaneously one of the most humanistic films of recent memory, but it also stars no humans. Its stop-motion animation is expressive, detailed and grounded, and yet it has no compunction about taking off on flights of fancy, segueing via delightful transitions into fantastical asides that play with scale and setting - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi
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CREDITS
Director / Writer: Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata
Production: Nidia Santiago & Edwina Liard
Co-production: Jean-Louis Padis
Original poem: Ron Koertge
Set Decoration: Ru Kuwahata, Marion Lacourt, Victoria Tanto, Max Porter
Puppets: Ru Kuwahata, Satoru Yoshida, Tomas Gebcyznski, Max Porter
Animation lead: Sylvain Derosne
Additional animation: Eric Montchaud, Ru Kuwahata
Cinematography lead: Nadine Buss
Additional cinematography: Simon Gesrel, Max Porter
Production / Post-production management: Nidia Santiago & Edwina Liard
Production Assistants: Philippe Baranzini, Walid Païenda, Fred Borja, Lucile Pellerin, Maxime Lebalanc, Juluien Renrad, Willy Fair
Post-Production: Max Porter, Sami Guellai, Pierre Morin, Ru Kuwahata
Editing: Max Porter
Music & Sound Design:Bram Meindersma **posée et enregistrée avec le soutien de la SACEM en association avec Ciclic
Voice:Albert Birney
Voice Recording: Keviln Hill, CAS
Color Grade:Thibaut Pétillon
Sound Mix: Matthieu Langlet
-Studio Providers-
Voice recording facility: Studio Unknown
Decoration: Ciclic Animation
Puppets: Moving Puppets
Animation: Ikki Inc., Manuel Cam Studio, Tiny Inventions
Post production: Ciclic Animation, Ikki Inc.
Color correction: Royal Post
Sound mix: Eclair
Typography: YouWorkForThem
Insurance: Gras Savoye
Bank: CIC
Accountant: Lebrun Audiovisual
Distribution: Miyu Distribution
Publicist: Fumi Kitahara
-Funding-
Avec la participation du Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée - Contribution Financière
Avec la participation d’Arte France - Unité de Programmes Cinéma
Avec le soutien de la Mairie de Paris en partenariat avec le CNC
Avec le soutien du CNC (Nouvelles Technologies en Production)
Avec le soutien de la Procirep et de l’Angoa
Puffin Foundation Ltd.
Marcella Brenner Grants for Faculty Research Development from Maryland Institute College of Art
La Maison des scénaristes
Negative Space has been supported in production by Ciclic-Région Centre Val de Loire, in association with the CNC. It has benefited of the support for original music creation by the SACEM in association with Ciclic. It has been hosted in Vendôme (France) from June 2nd to September 2nd, 2016, and from December 1st to January 31st, 2017. Ciclic is a public institution for cultural cooperation created by the Centre-Val de Loire Region and the French State. www.ciclic.fr.
Year: 2017
Country: FRANCE
© Ikki Films / MANUEL CAM Studio / Ikki Inc.
This film is reproduced on this channel with the permission of the rights-holders.

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15 июл 2019

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Комментарии : 4,6 тыс.

@christa6298 4 года назад

His dad also taught me how to pack.

@rowenayow2974 2 года назад

Dunno who will read this, but to share, this film was made by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, a power animating couple. He was a professor of mine in college and he shared the process of it in class. The clothes were modelled off his own, and his wife Ru made each of the tiny replicas. The furniture in his tiny childhood home, is a replica of his own home, down to the fabric of the sofas. This was really about his dad. They spent a year in residency in Paris making this film. It was nominated for an Oscar the year after I graduated. I feel incredibly lucky to have seen it's process and to learn about his story. Thanks Max for everything!

@ChelseaLupkin 4 года назад

I need more serious animations in my life! Really amazing storytelling and I loved the stop motion! Who’s with me?

@lillyloulijia 4 года назад

this video is actually so helpful for trip packing tho

@dansback8053 4 года назад

Perhaps ‘look at all that wasted space’ is referring to periods of time in the past where time was not spent together. Opportunities wasted.

@themansu402 4 года назад

Look at all that wasted space. All the time we could have spent. All the memories we could have shared. All the dreams we could have built.

@shinyhead6548 4 года назад

“look at all that wasted space" really impacted me

@ellenh278 4 года назад

The underwear jellyfish though! I loved the crashing waves/underwater segment. Clever.

@VixeyTeh 4 года назад

Is it weird that when he said "look at all that wasted space." I imagined him trying to stuff rolled socks in around him?

@harrymakongwa1147 4 года назад

I just learned how to pack fro trip today..thanks ..

@deepab8241 3 года назад

"Look at all the wasted space" proves how imperfect the relationship was between him, his father and his mother. They were folded up tightly just like the clothes inside the suitcase alligned right in their space without even overflowing an inch of it. Everything was measured in teaspoons in that house. Perfection itself was measured out. Their life was PERFECT but lifeless.

@cheeeseforlife 3 года назад

wait did you guys notice the part where his dad put him in the suitcase (

@pembasherpa6076 3 года назад

When his father was leaving for temporary days he fulfilled all the spaces in his suitcase but when he left permanently he left all empty...which symbolizes our life..rather than filling our life with materilistic things ..fill with love and memories that lives forever 🧡..

@pubalikhataniar4963 4 года назад

"Wasted Space" here, in my opinion reveals that the protagonist and his father bonded over only how to pack suitcases. They didn't share anything else, as his father was always on tour. So when he saw his father in the coffin the only thought that came to his mind was about packing suitcases and how to utilize the spaces and not any happy memories with his father because he didn't have any.

@GizmoMaltese 4 года назад

Such a beautiful synthesis of visual and verbal poetry. The coffin was the last suitcase for the final trip.

@Sonakshi111 3 года назад

While most people are trying to interpret the meaning, I’m just glad I came across this because I hate packing and this was very helpful. Not to mention the animation was beautiful beyond words

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@fernfractal Год назад

the single word his dad texted back expressed how much pain this boy felt, despite him not knowing it. the wasted space similarly expresses the pain & emptiness inside his heart, for hardly he knew his father at all.

@kavin_kumar 4 года назад

Trust me, stop motion takes a lot of time and effort. A lot.

@ravenchaplin8932 3 года назад

this is why I love short films because they can tell such a big story in a few minutes

@thislittlepiggy-bedtime-videos 2 года назад

In won’t go into details, but I relate so much that this story literally spoke to me. Me and my dad always ‘bonded’ on some specific thing.. he wasn’t a particular affectionate person… at least he didn’t show it.. but behind those words he said there was always ‘something else’. My interpretation of “look at all that wasted space” is that after all these years of bonding ONLY about packing, it naturally all he can say to begin with.. thats what associate his dad with … so he naturally thinks that first… he’s probably trying to bond again (kind of when you talk with someone dead at. The cemetery over their grave )Also… he talks about ‘wasted space’ cause there’s definitely some sort of regret/disappointment… of not having lived a full relationship with the dad.. not having explored other feeling, experiences etc… but limited instead their most intimate father/son moments to talk about packing… instead of living it fully… so it’s kind of ‘wasted’.