Conception is a series of six animated films about Motherhood. I had the opportunity to make this film about a woman named Yael and her experience with postpartum depression.
Series Producer // Margaret Cheatham Williams
Animation Director // Jordan Bruner
Animation Assistance // Zack Wiliams and Barry Bruner
Composer // Pierre O’ Reilly
Cello // Sarah Joyce
Audio Mix // Eli Epstein
Coordinating Producer // Gayatri Kaul
Executive Producers // Liz O. Baylen, Kaylee King-Balentine
"Flowers Will Rot", single of Tamara Qaddoumi's first EP "Dust Bathing"
Tamara's first single is incredibly personal. Growing in the dessert in Kuwait as a kid, she always felt fascinated by how birds bathe in sand when they have no water. Freedom, growth, making of what you can to survive, and the irony of bathing in sand/water to cleanse yourself are all symbolism present in the lyrics. I wanted to be sure to capture that in the video, creating an ever evolving, flowing world that symbolized the artist inner world and feelings. Formed by a mix of literal and abstract imagery, the film comes together using the bird as a thread that leads and connects each part of the journey.
Credits:
Music and lyrics - Tamara Qaddoumi
Direction, design and animation - Pablo Lozano
Additional animation - Mattias Breitholtz, Yino Huan
Creative Direction - Pamela Farhat, Michel Doumit
Studio - Tic Motion
Being a bald man sucks. Knowing you'll become one is worse.
Être chauve ça craint, savoir qu'on va le devenir c'est pire.
english & spanish subs available
réalisation/direction: Paul cabon
production: Yann legay, Wag prod
official selection SUNDANCE 2017
nommé aux Césars 2018 catégorie meilleur court-métrage d'animation
Best animated short film at MONTERREY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017
Audience award at NEW CHITOSE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2016
Best Animation film at LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL2016
