Synopsis:
'Sensational City' is an animation about having one’s ears wide-open
in a city that offers a million sounds at every corner. Recorded mostly
in New York City, the animation invites the viewer to hear sounds that
we normally filter out of our consciousness and shows that beauty can be
found in the ambient sounds of a bustling city. “Sensational City”
is a partially abstract, hand-made animation, drawn with brush-tipped
markers on index cards.
Bio:
Tarik Cherkaoui is an independent animator and filmmaker based in New
York. He is interested in animation as a form of art. His earlier film,
Saadia: A Moroccan Woman in the resistance was screened at the Human
Rights Film Festival and won a gold plaque at the Chicago Film
International Film Festival. Tarik’s recent work focuses on abstract
and non-traditional narrative style where shape and sound are the sole
subject. Tarik is agnostic to technique, having been trained in
computer 3D animation, he fell in love with the hand-made feel of
traditional animation and has worked with paint-on-glass and markers on
index cards. Tarik is currently developing a live-action piece about
nuclear fall-out shelters in New York City.
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