I Lapse

A trend, it's been said, has brought to light some cognitive difficulties, those involving the use of language.

  • Samu Mariani
    Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Deslizo
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Animation, AI, Claymation, Language
  • Runtime:
    39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 4, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:5
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Dèrapage 24
    Quebec
    Canada
    May 9, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • XI Festival Brasileiro de Nanometragem
    Atibaia
    Brazil
    June 9, 2024
    Brazilian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival du Film de Contis
    Contis
    France
    June 15, 2024
    no status
    Incubadora de Artistas Selection
  • IV Encontro Nacional de Animação Experimental, ExperimentAnima 2024
    Curitiba
    Brazil
    August 29, 2024
    South of Brazil
  • WNDX Festival of Moving Image
    Winnipeg
    Canada
    October 6, 2024
    Western Canada
  • New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival
    Chitose
    Japan
    November 4, 2024
    Asian Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Samu Mariani

Samuel Mariani is a master's student of media and audiovisual processes at the School of Arts and Communications at the University of Sao Paulo, member of the research group MidiAto: Language Studies Group on Media Practices. He has worked as an animator, editor and AI explorer for Coala Films, for the Campinas' Animation Nucleus and for The International Animation Day of Brazil.

Amongst his work, he acted as editor and DOP for the short "Flesh" (2019), as assistant editor and 2nd AD for the feature "Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People" (2021), as lead editor and stop motion animator of the second season of the TV series "Angeli The Killer" (2021) and puppeteer and lead editor of the TV series "Gildo" (2024).

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Director Statement

Confusions regarding number, gender and degree have been shared in a constant and increasing manner, varying due to the complexity of the language, each with its prepositional, conjunctive and neologistic addenda. Colloquialism? It doesn't sound right. A word repeated many times has lost its referent.

Artisanal animation, motion-control obsession and AI misuse are mixed in a cauldron that hopes to reveal some of what is behind our typing fingers, across the ever-renovating faces under the pixels.