Las hermanas Pearce
Reino Unido | 9 min | Sin Diálogos
“The Pearce Sisters”, es una pieza de humor negro, con una historia
oscura, desquiciada y macabra, que bien podría entrar dentro del género
de terror. Las protagonistas son dos grotescas hermanas de dudosa salud
mental, que viven aisladas junto al mar. En apariencia son dos seres
tranquilos, pero a la hora de buscar compañia para tomar el té... el
asunto se puede tornar raro. (FILMAFFINITY)
"Quizás lo más interesante de este cortometraje sea como lleva la
animación 3D a cotas no imaginadas hasta ahora. En la web, el autor
describe como su intención era la de poder recrear un mundo pictórico
crudo y caligráfico, y para ello, realizó primero enteramente el
cortometraje en 3D, para luego imprimir todos los fotogramas del mismo y
dibujar sobre ellos. Esos dibujos luego fueron integrados digitalmente
sobre la animación 3D, dándole un look bastante particular." (amimaholic)
"The 2008 BAFTA Short Animation winner, The Pearce Sisters,
though supremely stylish is not a movie for the squeamish. Two sisters,
Lol and Edna, eke out a cruel living for themselves catching Atlantic
herring and preserving them in the smoke kiln. This part of the film is
notable for the gritty realism of fish being netted, killed, beheaded,
gutted, all with consummate skill. Other moments reveal a bygone
Britain, one from the sepia photographs purchased at coastal resorts
depicting fishing communities of perhaps 50 years ago - kerosene poured
to start the fire, the museum piece of a box of Brygrey
matches, one of which is struck to light the fire of driftwood, the
hauling in of bulging nets by hand, fish innards thrown to the screaming
gulls, the kettle on the hob. But it is difficult to avoid the sisters
themselves, two gargoyles of women, one small the other huge, with muscles to match.
When they pull in a drowning man, pound oxygen into his lungs, it seems
somewhat lacking in gratitude that he charges off into the cold Scottish
waters rather than face them. (...)
Luis Cook is from Aardman Animation,
a much loved British institution but one associated forever in our
minds with stop motion, a dog, a sheep and ingenious inventions. Luis'
film breaks with traditions, demonstrating the versatility of the
studio.
Atom Films, to which the link is made,
grade
the movie as suiting a mature audience and they are correct. The
gruesome fate of seafaring men is enacted in gory detail. The movie is
based on one of the stories in the
Mick Jackson anthology, Ten Sorry Tales.
Luis' style of working and techniques used deserve some explanation.
Commencing with first with clay, 3d CGI models were generated, printed
out, 2D images created and worked on for detail and then scanned back
into 3D models,
Photoshop providing the textures.
"Confused? So were we, but blundered our way in ..."
(Luis) The gore tends to take over in the imagination and without
giving anything away, it has to be said the horror element is well to
the fore. That said, there's something remarkably human, even sad, about
the two ugly sisters. The tea party at the close of the movie has
excited interest for, as you will see, obvious reasons, but there is an
attempt by the women to establish some kind of a society in a bleak
world. This bleakness is well established by the rather depressed
yellows, turquoises and greens, not to mention the incessant driving
rain of the Scottish island. These women are ugly, alone and in order to
survive have to be brutal to survive a harsh environment. When one of
the sisters releases a trapped fly into the air or allows the crab to
eat the slimy viscera, there is some humanity at work. And if the ladies
wish to invite guests to their dinner table it's difficult to see how
this could otherwise have been achieved. Full length BAFTA movies and
would-be Oscars celebrities tend to attract the headlines but I doubt
you will see a better movie this year. Lol and Edna are most decidely
not Keira Knightley but there is sufficient depth in their depiction
here not to paint them as entirely monstrous. For all that I should
decline the girls' invitation to dine." (
Animation Blog).
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