Spike Jonze | Mourir Auprès de Toi

Sélectionné lors de la semaine de la critique à Cannes et présenté aux festivals d’Annecy et de Locarno, le court-métrage Mourir auprès de toi réalisé par Spike Jonze et Simon Cahn a nécessité six mois de travail et la création de quelques 3000 morceaux de feutrine. A l’origine du projet, une rencontre entre l’artiste parisienne Olympia Le-Tandont le travail textile a inspiré le réalisateur. Petite histoire d’amour tragi-comique, Mourir auprès de toi reprend la thématique de l’amour passionnel et impossible de la littérature (Macbeth, Roméo & Juliette).

Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. « It’s such a beautiful and romantic place,” offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. « The perfect setting for our story!” The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand. “I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,” said Jonze of working with Le-Tan’s characters. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze’s recent shorts include robot love story I’m Here and an inspired G.I. Joe-starring video for The Beastie Boys. “A short is like a sketch,” he says. “You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.” Here the iconic director reveals his creative process to writer Maryam L’Ange.

(Via Nowness)

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