Bonus Film: Disco
Director: Boris Seewald
Choreographer: Simone Schmidt, Althea Corlett
Animation: Miwha Seewald, Boris Seewald, Mina Seewald
Music: Ralf Hildenbeutel
(Germany, 2016) 2:09
This month, we’re sharing a special bonus Encore Shorts film: Disco! Also directed by Boris Seewald, Disco is a handmade music video of approx 1,250 paintings on paper for “Disco” by Ralf Hildenbeutel. This short film uses an animation technique called rotoscoping to turn the real-life movements of dancers Althea Corlett and Simone Schmidt into a series of drawings and paintings to make each scene. Despite the wild variety of mediums and techniques used in the hundreds of sketches, the frame-to-frame continuity almost serves to enhance and accentuate the motions of the dancers. Disco appeared in the 2016 San Francisco Dance Film Festival where it was awarded “Best Visual Effect”.
