You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer

Filmstill You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer

You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer

You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
Max Ferguson
International Competition Animated Film 2024
Animated Film
Belgium
2023
5 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

Powerful poetry in image, word and sound – Max Ferguson’s work is a rough diamond that testifies to an emotional, unpolished force and whose light is refracted in many colours. Mixing elements from photography, painting and collage with short video sequences, Ferguson finds strong verbal and visual images to mark the tipping point between physical desire and emotional violation.
Rough aesthetics and a gloomy atmosphere reminiscent of early underground films are combined with extreme delicacy and a constantly alert, almost animalistic curiosity. They manifest a very contemporary female self-image. The balancing act between pain and self-respect takes place in a sound cosmos of electronic thunder and nervous buzzing. While the brawny truck cannot leave its lane, the deer follows its instinct and finds a (new) way, even if it must learn from the wolf.

André Eckardt

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Director
Max Ferguson
Editor
Max Ferguson
Producer
Max Ferguson
Sound
Seppe Indigne
Animation
Max Ferguson
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award