Let me show you the beauty of falling from grace
A journey through the artist's creative process from the mysterious genesis of inspiration to its very highs and its very lows, following the uplift of a demiurgic empowerment till its helpless demise.
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Jimena AguilarDirector
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Amine BoucekkineMusic / Sound Design / Poetry
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Pablo PolledriAnimation / Visual Generation & Edition
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Amine BoucekkineProducer
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Jimena AguilarProducer
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Jimena AguilarWriter
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Amine BoucekkineWriter
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Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Music Video
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Runtime:7 minutes 41 seconds
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Completion Date:May 31, 2025
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:Argentina
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
Jimena Aguilar is a director, screenwriter, playwright, musician, and producer. She has taken part in numerous projects for stage productions and films. “Finnish and Paranoid Dream”, an experimental animated short film directed by Aguilar, has been selected by over 80 festivals worldwide and has received awards in Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Turkey.
Her plays have been staged in Spain, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, and published in Argentina and Spain.
Statement from Amine Boucekkine as the initiator of the project.
For this fantastic / surrealist audiovisual experimentation that would involve the extensive use of AI as far the imagery is concerned (AI was not used to create the music), I wanted to explore a drawing or painting influenced esthetics that would feel organic and vibrant, as opposed to something perfect and cold. Thus I teamed with director Jimena Aguilar, whose work on “Finnish and Paranoid Dream” has been an inspiration for me. And Goya awarded director Pablo Polledri did us the honor to provide his first ever AI animation work in order to create this short film based on my music and a short poem of mine.
This effort is clearly not about replacing traditional animation, as both in substance and in form, it consists in an homage paid to real painting and the highs and lows of the creative process. Technology simply allows us here to experiment a new form and create something different, a bit like an evolving type of deconstructive and reconstructive collage which the primary parts of would be custom generated according to personal visions and intuitions. We have tried to develop a surrealist imagery that is meant to embrace the mysterious flows of imagination and the subconscious and take the audience on a journey through the maelstrom of artistic creation.
Alongside this experimentation, I remain committed to push for more craftsmanship in a purist practical effects based approach in other cinematographic productions, as I firmly stand against the "deskilling" risk the development of AI might imply. Both processes can be complementary. I believe that keeping the two approaches going as you experiment is the only way to really determine when and to which extent the use of AI can be relevant and make sense.