With his animated short Memorable, director Bruno Collet aimed to capture dementia, as experienced by an aging painter. Examining challenges to the artist’s marriage, as his dementia advances, Coll…
Given his intention of placing viewers inside the perspective of his protagonist, Louis, the visuals ofwould inevitably be somewhat distorted—reflecting a mind increasingly disconnected from reality. “As the main character is a painter, and the disease is getting more [prominent], all these old memories of painting and art come up to the surface,” Collet notes.
While William Utermohlen served as a primary model for the character of Louis, the look of the short’s world was informed by the life of Peter Falk—a four-time Emmy-winning actor who also succumbed to Alzheimer’s. “I remember reading a story about his wife clustering him toward a safe place where he couldn’t really escape, because she was fearful.
Sculpting puppets, covering them with latex foam, and then painting them in his singular style for the short, Collet createdthrough a combination of stop-motion filmmaking and computer-generated 3D effects. The latter helped the director with several particularly surreal moments, reflective of Louis’ degenerating mind—like when the character sees his cell phone melting spontaneously before his very eyes.For Louis, almost every person in the world appears quite strange.
Currently, the director is looking to make his first feature—a film that also is focused on a renowned painter. “[It] will be about a painter called [Théodore] Géricault,” Collet shares. “He had a very, very famous painting, calledand keep your inbox happy.
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