简介：A default CGI animated child is confronted with modern subjectivity and world coming of age issues, making animation a gloomy tool to subdue modern narrative feelings in favour of despair and micro-dosed hope. Animation based routines and easy-portraiture of desolation are strategically organised as a grim Dark Toon.
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Contemporary movie making at its best is made by sequential IRL images, whose raw presence has become a pivotal element in the progressive affirmation of a saturated account of what reality means. Captured moving images have being progressively contaminated by post-production and CGI detailing making “movies” ever close to a pure engineering process.
The advent of CGI imaging technologies directly flooded traditional filmmaking out of blockbuster revenues provided by studios animation productions, diluting purely digitally-achieved fantasies and transforming them in a chemically induced perfection filter applied to almost everything.
With Fantasmagorie (1908) Èmile Cohl introduced animation as a wandering initiative, in which space browsing and encountering objects were the main task a protagonist was subject to. An innocuos stylized man that preceded, and in a way determined, pre-rendering structures of animated characters. Bébé Colère is the last investigation by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel of media structures in contemporary cinema. A default CGI animated child is confronted with modern subjectivity and world coming of age issues, making animation a gloomy tool to subdue modern narrative feelings in favour of despair and micro-dosed hope. Animation based routines and easy-portraiture of desolation are strategically organised as a grim Dark Toon.
