Freeride in C
Edmunds Jansons (2024) 10′
Film Title: Freeride in C
Director, Art Design, Script, Editing: Edmunds Jansons
Animation: Edmunds Jansons, Mārtiņš Dūmiņš
Assistant Animators: Kristīne Zvirbule, Sofija Jansone, Vidaga Grīnberga, Ieva Treija
Director’s assistant: Linda Stūre
Sound Director: Ģirts Bišs
Music: “in C” by Terry Riley
Performed by: The Young Gods
Production manager: Agne Skane
Producer: Sabīne Andersone
Production Company: Atom Art
Animation Technique: Pencil on paper, 2D Computer Animation
Lenght: 10′
Financial Support: National film Centre of Latvia, State Culture Capital Foundation
Festival distribution: Square Eyes, Habichergasse 39/3, 1160 Vienna, Austria
Wouter Jansen, wouter@squareeyesfilm.com
Synopsis
The white tranquility of mountains is disturbed by colorful winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy downhill skiing. The short film is an audiovisual experience, an abstract dance of freedom that reflects the joy and fragility of being.
Directors statement
Several equally strong impulses influenced the creation of this short film, and it is impossible to arrange them into an order of priority, but chronologically the first was the passion for skiing and the realization that a ski resort is a perfect mise-en-scene for animation. People of all nationalities, social classes, and ages dress in colorful abstract ornamental costumes and happily engage in ritual dance-like physical activities. And it all takes place in an amphitheater of majestic snow-capped mountains.
The second impulse is related to my reflection on the relationship between animated shorts and contemporary music. Thinking about a more organic model of the relationship between image and sound, I asked the question: What if, when making a film for which I have a pre-conceived score, I built the structure of the film using literally the same method that the composer used to compose the score?
Terry Riley’s In C was an emotional reference for me from the very beginning. Listening to it seems repetitive, but it also has a continuous forward movement. It seems simple yet elusively complex. It is energetically turbulent yet calming.
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