THE ANTIDOTE TO CACOPHONY
TAKIN’ IT PEACEFUL AND EEEEEEASY, WITH THE SWEETEST ADVICE FROM A SNAIL
One of the great joys of filmmaking is getting to work with brilliant people, and watching them dazzle with their hard-earned expertise. Because you’re building a dream together. And it takes enormous skill to cast a strong, sustaining spell.
Part and parcel of that joy is getting to know those people better. Because whatever they’re bringing to the project? There’s more where that came from. A deeper well, from which they share.
So this morning – real quick, before I run off to acting class – I’d like to share this beautiful ode to not running off to do anything. Perhaps the sweetest, gentlest short film I’ve ever seen. And an antidote to all of life’s mad cacophony.
Alice Langlois is a stop-motion animator, music composer, and filmmaker-at-large here in the Portland area. She works on big budget features and teeny-tiny indie projects. Like, for example, creating the hilarious, dizzying opening credit sequence for The Great Divide. (Just WAIT TILL YOU SEE!)
For Advice From a Snail, she not only shot, cut, animated, and directed. She designed the snail costume. Composed the score. And provided one-half of the lovely dialogue, cheerfully bouncing back and forth with Trent Lenkarski (as the actual snail) with a light, graceful ease and rapport that I found both delightful and profoundly peaceful.
Watching this movie is like spending time with them. As snails. And it’s a wonderful thing.
Again: I’m just so grateful to have made such brilliant friends. THANK, ALICE!!!
Now kick back and relax. You deserve it.
And I think you’ll be glad you did.