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‘Olivia & the Clouds’ Director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat on the Wild Collaborative Animation Process of His Annecy Player: ‘It Was Chaotic and Crazy’


Director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat discusses the chaotic, mixed-media animation of 'Olivia & the Clouds,' Dominican animation and creative processes.

Through the thoughts and memories of its cast, Annecy __ player “Olivia & the Clouds” leaps across multiple animation and live-action formats. The story itself is about a quartet of people — Olivia, Barbara, Mauricio and Ramón — all connected by past and present relationships with each other, the film’s different methods representing the emotional distance between them. For example, when I was trying to get funds for “Olivia & the Clouds,” for the sequence shot on Super 8 that had animation elements on top of it, we had to ask permission to record at this specific street in this area.

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