Le Suitcase de Jules Vern: For your viewing pleasure...

For your viewing pleasure...

Last year when I went to the Berlinale International Film Festival I had the good fortune of meeting and becoming friends with Ewan Jones Morris from Cardiff, Wales. He is one of a group of people who began the Sleeveface craze. But I mostly remember him, for his welsh shoes, red hair, and the adventures we had with our other new found friends watching movies, getting tipsy on expensive champagne (don't worry, it was free for us), and trekking to German clubs with pink fur walls.

Just yesterday I saw a new short film that Ewan made. And I loved it. Set to the music of Cate Le Bon, this is a story about a girl who births leaves and melons. With her you enter a world of mod eye makeup, enchanted forests that house mythical beasts, paper towns with little people, and avant-garde collages. A mixture of live stop motion and collage like animation this is a visual smorgasbord with, to my eyes at least, retro and vintage inspiration.