Olivia & the Clouds
Southeast Asian Premiere
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat Dominican Republic 2024 81 min PG
This vibrant debut employs a whirlwind of animation styles to offer shifting perspectives on love with mesmerising fluidity.
Olivia drifts through cotton cloud fantasies gifted by someone under the bed. Barbara’s romantic anxieties surface in an art project. Ramon hesitates over a woman reborn as a potted plant seeking intimacy.
Stringing together vignettes of lost loves, this visually astounding film launches into a dizzying kaleidoscope of animation styles: claymation, cut-outs, mixed media and more. Abstraction becomes the sole but generous language for the vast desires dormant in everyday tedium, freeing characters from the grip of memory and grief. The film makes an earnest case for buried feelings to burst forth in vivid expression.
30 Nov, Sat 7:00PM / 81 min
Golden Village Bugis+, Hall 7
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Olivia & the Clouds
Olivia & Las Nubes
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Dominican Republic
2024
Spanish
English
81 min
PG
Southeast Asian Premiere
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat is an animator whose work draws inspiration from magic realism and his upbringing in the Caribbean. Olivia & the Clouds was nominated for the Golden Leopard in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present and for Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Amelia del Mar Hernández,
Fernando Santos Díaz
Olga Valdez,
Elsa Nuñez,
Héctor Aníbal
