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 | HOPPLA!!!
| World Premiere |
| Winner: Special Prize For Motion Graphics |
| Crew: | Producers: Eddy Falconer - Screenwriters: Eddy Falconer
| | Email: | eddy eddyfalconer.net |
synopsis
The Death family is caught up in civic power struggles, natural and economic disasters, to the advantage of some and disadvantage of others. A not-too-linear story of gentrification wars that is humorously bleak, partly fantasy, and yet kinda real. A San Francisco native and a queer, the artist has created this cut-out animation with hand-painted and digital means. It is based not only on observation in Bay Area struggles, but on years spent in Berlin and New York watching and experiencing social and historical processes. Cartoon and collage at the visual level, Its fragmented use of language references Dadaist modes of expressing and processing trauma. HOPPLA is a little bit Brecht and a little bit Ubu, yet also definitely personal and contemporary.
director
After a colorful youth during which they suffered their own breakdowns in Berlin and in Paris, Eddy came to their senses and made more movies, theater, paintings, spoken word performances, etc etc. Born 1965 in Massachusetts and raised in San Francisco, Eddy lives in Berkeley, CA.
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filmmaker's note
I have this theory that if you push really hard in a limited direction, defined by structural elements or extreme, even exaggerated point of view, wild fantastical worlds emerge that can shift the center of ordinary thought to apprehend or consider another parameter. In my case sometimes this has resulted in some exploration of utopian/dystopian territories, and also in the articulation of worlds and patterns whose substrate are seemingly random and esoteric belief systems. I have tried in some early works to do this by referencing stringent color schemes or astrological motifs; conscious, alternative communities have sometimes assisted me in these efforts, and in other attempts, the community is realized as fictional or semi-fable-like content. Other concerns are ontological or metaphysical or theatrical or to do with mask and identity. The joke of HOPPLA!!! might be that outside of documentary, it's the most realistic thing I've made!
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