Wind Mills is a short animated film made by Guillaume Bergère, Guillaume Coudert, Maria Glinyanova, Bruno Guerra, and Charlotte Jammet, at Ecole Georges Méliès. This is the filmmakers’ own summary of their work:
It is a dead, lightless world, where a little girl, despite her father’s renunciation and despair facing the death of his wife, maintains their dream of building a machine powered by magic winds to fly and reach the sun.
The film is aesthetically elegant and conceptually strong. It is also exquisite in terms of its cinematic methods of storytelling; composition of the frame, camera movement, editing, and lighting, are effective as well as evocative. Particular reference needs to be made to the remarkable music by Lucie Mayjonade and Olivier Michelot, which also serves as a narrative device. As a result, the film brings a whole new world to life in less than eight minutes, and almost exclusively without the aid of dialogue.
The best films in the history of cinema had something important to say; their visual language, however groundbreaking and impressive, was not an end in itself, but the means by which meaning was conveyed. And this is the main reason why it is such a pleasure to watch Wind Mills. It is its content that matters the most, and rightly so; after all, isn’t it better to struggle than to resign, to reach for the light than to surrender to despair?
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