salvia

screenings Salvia participated at the Audience Prize Competition of the International Film Festival PLATFORMA VIDEO6 (Athens, December 2-7, 2006). the contest Big company Microsoft wanted us to tell the story about why technology makes our lives healthier. Somewhere at the end of the preceeding line of several rounds and selections blinked a trip to India, where everything was staged. It's the Imagine Cup 2006, teams from all over the world joined. Proud to represent Sweden mexican, greece, chinese and austrian forces joined and entered the contest ....

Sadly we just passed round 1 and didn't make it into the endgame. But at least it's no wasted time. The animation turned out to be quite good and the music by Alejandro made it even better ... the storyline by ALMA and FANOURIS:

Salvia (sage)

The metaphor presented is pragmatic. We follow the history of technology through sounds and images. The story weaves a myth of technology and life, coiling together in a harmonic arrangement: Life, as the swarming plants. Salvia, as the distillation of human knowledge. Technology, as the crystalline structure.

Life itself vibrates.

Green boils wild, mixing, growing and folding. Coiled, together, becoming part of a greater pattern. Relying on strong foundations, grasping the opportunity to rise from our thoughts; assembling, building, weaving a path of our own.

Technology is not one man's achievement, but the accumulation of thoughts. It is a discourse of ideas and their manifestation: salvia, a distilled drop, which brings within reach what was before impossible.

A synergic, coactive relationship between life and technology. Together, we grow, create, improve and dream. Yet we also bleed and crumble, we stagger and fall, eclipsing each other whenever we fail to distinguish development from destruction. At the end, every turn, every whisper, everything binds us together.

Even if we are not yet there, when we look back, the road we have traveled strikes us as long and magnificent; such is the journey ahead.

Life sustains life.

Life holds life. the storyboard The first draft on the left was scribbled into my notebook. The colored version on the right already involved drawings of seperate plants and crystals and coloring and compositing in photoshop afterwards. You just gotta love the space-effect of blurry layers ... video Watch the animation at YouTube! screenshots