A Trailer for João Gonzalez’s Animated Short ‘Ice Merchants’ Follows a Cliff-Jumping Father and Son



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Chosen as one particular of 10 projects for the Global Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Competition, João Gonzalez’s “Ice Retailers” is a frigid and precarious tale about a father and son. As the title indicates, the pair sells the frozen content, even though to arrive at the market in the village under, they have to get their parachutes and leap from their cliff-facet residence every working day.

Gonzalez, who also performed and composed the accompanying soundtrack, made “Ice Merchants” in a negligible design equivalent to his award-winning “Nestor” and “The Voyagers.” He shares about the new film in a assertion: “Something that has constantly fascinated me about animation cinema is the freedom it presents us to make one thing from scratch. Surrealistic and bizarre eventualities and realities can be utilised as a metaphorical software to converse about something that is widespread to us in our far more ‘real’ actuality.”

Check out the trailer previously mentioned, and adhere to the Portuguese director on Instagram to remain up-to-day on upcoming viewing possibilities.

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