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La Perra

La Perra
Carla Melo Gampert
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Colombia,
France
2023
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Breasts lifted, bottom tight, feathers smoothed. She is ready for her date. But her daughter clings and refuses to let her go to this as yet incomprehensible, repulsive ritual of desire. Very soon the fully-fledged adolescent will indulge in sexual lust herself … and experience disappointments. In the conflicted world of the two women, men evade partnership and fatherhood. The faithful bitch offers the only support.

As in her previous film, Carla Melo Gampert transfers her impressive but uncompromising analysis of family relationships to the lives of wading birds. Human traits show through in the anatomy, but the bird’s bodies including their feathers and sounds lend themselves perfectly to the apt exaggeration of emotions. Delicate strokes turn into cuttingly sharp movement lines of the animal characters, both in their erotically crude acts of love and their “hands-on” disputes. Soft splashes of watercolour glow incandescently in the heat of lust and warningly in the hopeless fury.

André Eckardt

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Carla Melo Gampert
Editor
Juan Sebastián Quebrada
Producer
Julie Billy, Naomi Denamur, Franco Lolli, Capucine Mahé
Sound
Juanma López, Daniel Giraldo
Animation
Carla Melo Gampert, Andrea Muñoz Álvarez
World Sales
Elise Notseck
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award