‘Wish you were here’ Directed by Shaun Clark has won the Bruce Conner Award for Avant-Garde Animation at éphémère ~ London Experimental Film. This is the films fourth award after winning a Best Inspirational Film, Cannes Special Screening 8 & halfilms, France
Best Experimental Film, British Indie Festival Film & Music, London, UK
Silver award for best experimental film, London Movie Awards, London, UK.
Wish you were here is a journey through a character’s imagination as he digs in the sand discovering objects left by others who he can only imagine. It was made using Pixilation and stop frame animation.
The award is named after Bruce Conner (b. 1933, McPherson, KS, d. 2008, San Francisco, CA), who worked in sculpture, collage, painting, drawing, and film, was one of the foremost American artists of the postwar era.
Film critic Joseph Norman (Zippy Frames) said the film is striking in its inventive use of landscape as a stage: through compositing of sea, characters and props, we see the different characters as they each experience the seashore differently. Clark summed up his approach interestingly in explaining how the character that is digging in the sound is like the conductor of the film, and this may be understood in terms of conducting both sound and action through the character’s imagination.
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