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2022 ADC Awards - Motion / Film / Gaming Craft

Aline - The French Dispatch

Agency Wetransfer / Amsterdam

Client Wes Anderson - Fox Searchlight Pictures

Category

Craft in Motion / Film / Animation

Annual ID

ADC101_MOT005G

About the Work

As the world waited for the release of The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson gathered a small team together to make his first-ever music video to celebrate the feature film’s theme song, Aline. As the film is made in homage to The New Yorker, the artist’s style needed to possess a faint whiff of the magazine’s aesthetic values. Picture this: you’re an illustrator who prefers to work alone, quietly, in your studio, calmly drawing cartoons and answering briefs with pen and ink. Imagine then that you find yourself not only working flat out on what turns out to be a three-year-long collaboration with one of the most famous directors in the world, but also drawing live, on a film set, in front of said director and the entire crew of one of the most hotly anticipated cinematic releases of the decade. The video features Jarvis Cocker as Tip-Top, taking us on a journey through Ennui-sur-Blasé. Along the way we meet the characters of the film and catch glimpses of the plot. We watch as Tip-Top cheerfully uses a floating corpse in a canal as a stepping stone, or dances past Tilda Swinton observing some elderly French gentlemen play pétanque. We climb up and up through the town with the boulangerie delivery vans in a way that seems to move through storeys without ever breaking the shot.

2022 Awards

Total Points: 45

Credits

PR / Marketing Agency

Wetransfer / Amsterdam

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