Imagining the Author: Sofia Carrillo

 

Sunday, 29. 9. 2024 at 14.00 / Vetrinj mansion, big hall

This event combines the format of screening and in-depth Q&A.

The artist in spotlight is Sofia Carrillo, a well-known Mexican animator, whose films demonstrate immersive, magnetic, and sensual relationship between the creator and the found objects. Toys, cult figurines, or useful appliances are infused with soul, and so they can graciously wander across broken, fractured, and distorted environments. Sofia Carrillo is a mentor of stop motion animation phase at the “Workshot 2.0: Transhumanism” at the 14th StopTrik IFF.

Sofia Carrillo

is an Stop Motion Animation Film Director. Winner of two silver Ariel for Best Animated short film from The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences: Prita Noire in 2011, and Cerulia, 2017. She is also the creator of the interstitials for the XX Anthology Horror Film, directed by Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin and Karin Kusama (Magnolia Pictures and XYZ Films), premiered at Sundance in 2017. Her work has participated at Annecy, Sundance, Chicago, Tricky Women, Sitges, Habana film festivals among others. Sofia is an AMPAS (Oscar) and AMACC (Ariel) Academy member. She also collaborated in the second unit of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Annecy 2024 Residency participant with Insectarium, her first feature length film.

https://vimeo.com/sofiacarrillo

01. The Sad House / La Casa triste
Sofia Cariillo (Jóvenes Creadores FONCA-CONACULTA, Nahuyacafilms)
2013, Mexico, 13'

The story of a family told through objects found in junk shops and flea markets.

Language: Spanish
Recommended for children under the age of 14: No
Technique: found object animation

Team:
Written, directed and animated by Sofia Carrillo
Photography: Paola Chaurand
Editing: Uri Espinosa
Sound Design: Odín Acosta
Original Music: FESWAY (Sofia Orozco, Fernando Arias, Yolihuani Curiel)
Visual FX: Héctor Vásquez, Carlos Godínez


02. Cerulia
Sofia Cariillo (IMCINE, Nahuyacafilms)
2017, Mexico, 13'

Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents presence won't let her go.

Language: Spanish
Recommended for children under the age of 14: No
Technique: Puppet animation

Team
Written and directed by Sofía Carrillo
Executive producer: Paola Chaurand
Photography: Paola Chaurand
Music: Fesway - Sofía Orozco, Yolihuani Curiel, Fernando Arias
Stop Motion Animation: Sofía Carrillo
Funds: Héctor Fausto
Compounds and special effects: Héctor Fausto, Erika Jiménez
Supervisor VFX and composites: Héctor Faust
Character Design: Sofía Carrillo
Puppet design: Humanimalia Puppetry Studio, León Fernández, Mar Fernández, Sofía Carrillo
Skeleton design: Humanimalia Puppetry Studio, León Fernández, Mar Fernández
Sound Designer: Odín Acosta
THX Mixing Operator: Raúl Atondo
Edition: Uri Espinosa Cueto
Production Design , Art Direction: Lou Peresandi, Sofía Carrillo
Decor, Parade: Sofía Carrillo
Costume design: Beatriz Carrillo
Postproducer: Uri Espinosa Cueto
Colorist: Héctor Faust
Voice of Cerulia: Diana Bracho



 
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