The short film "The Me Bird" is a free interpretation of the homonym poem by Pablo Neruda. The inspiration in the strata stencil technique helps conceptualize the repetition of layers as the past of our movements and actions. The frames depicted as jail and the past as a burden serve as the background for the story of a ballerina on a journey towards freedom. A diversified artistic experimentation recreates the tempest that connects bird and dancer. www.18bis.tv www.facebook.com/18bis Watch the making of: www.vimeo.com/60860949 // O curta The Me Bird é uma livre interpretação do poema homônimo de Pablo Neruda. A inspiração na técnica strata stencil ajuda a conceituar a repetição de camadas como o passado de nossos movimentos e ações. As molduras como jaula e o passado como fardo servem de pano de fundo para a história de uma bailarina em sua jornada rumo à liberdade. Através de variada experimentação artística, recria-se a tormenta que conecta pássaro e dançarina. I am the Pablo Bird, bird of a single feather, a flier in the clear shadow and obscure clarity, my wings are unseen, my ears resound when I walk among the trees or beneath the tombstones like an unlucky umbrella or a naked sword, stretched like a bow or round like a grape, I fly on and on not knowing, wounded in the dark night, who is waiting for me, who does not want my song, who desires my death, who will not know I'm arriving and will not come to subdue me, to bleed me, to twist me, or to kiss my clothes, torn by the shrieking wind. That's why I come and go, fly and don't fly but sing: I am the furious bird of the calm storm. Pablo Neruda

The beautiful Neruda poem, "The Me Bird" inspired this truly awesome stencil cut animation, created by 18bis.

The making-of video is pretty awesome too.

The making of "The Me Bird", animation inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda. The edit reveals the creative process of the short film. Music: Thee, Stranded Horse - Churning strides Watch the animation: https://vimeo.com/60763684 // Making of de "The Me Bird", animação inspirada em um poema de Pablo Neruda. As imagens contam um pouco do processo de criação do curta. Música: Thee, Stranded Horse - Churning strides Veja a animação: https://vimeo.com/60763684