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Sometimes the Moon Is Velvet
16 minutes | Family | 2010 | 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Animations / Dramas / Foreign / IndieFlix Official Selections / Romance / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Love will turn your world upside down.
SynopsisJack, a struggling fisherman from a lonely seaside village, one night finds a velvet dress in the ocean that he believes will bring him luck. However, when a beautiful homeless girl steals the dress, they find that love can really turn your world upside down.
Director's StatementThe kind of cinema I love most is that which shows us ourselves but in a completely stylized way – to make us relate to a world that we can only imagine, but a world that we might dream to be in. That is the cinema of "Sometimes the Moon is Velvet". The mixing of animation, puppetry, cinematography, acting, full-blown visual effects and a romantic score might initially seem overly ambitious and over-explained, if not just plain 'cheesy'– but to use these different techniques well is not just to stitch together a character and his/her world, but to give them their allegorical purpose – to keep the ideas behind them abstract and to allow the audience to dream.
I wrote the first version of this film some 15 years ago; it has changed immensely since then, but the essence is the same – a diorama of a world where boundaries are shrunken, where pre-conceptions are shattered, and where our child-like sensibilities are key. Of course, I also love good old-fashioned romance, and good old-fashioned fairy tales.
So here you are! I hope you enjoy it.
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Directed by
Tom Phillips -
Written by
Tom Phillips -
Produced by
Simon Thomas
Victoria Hair - Sometimes the Moon Is Velvet Website
Written by: Tom Phillips
Produced by: Simon Thomas
Victoria Hair
Cast
Jack: Joseph MawleHettie: Rachel Bright
Crew
Cinematographer: Chris PlevinProduction Designer: Joel Bodin
Editor: Brenna Rangott
Music: Christopher O'Young
Costume Designer: Claire Potter
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Rhode Island International Film Festival -- Best Short (Won)
Foyle Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
London International Festival of Sci-Fi & Fantastic Film -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Denver International Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Newport Beach Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
We shot in Scotland and at Three Mills Studios in London. It was very important to bring this world to life using a kind of 'photoreal stylization', and since we spent so much time on greenscreen, the fairy tale location in Scotland not only gave us great footage, but something for the cast and crew to refer back to when in the studio. The post took 12 months to complete - some of it was done at MPC London and some by other freelance artists at Mobius MC in their spare time. It was great to use a combination of puppetry, traditional animation, live action and visual effects.
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Director
Tom Phillips
