"Love". There has never been a more misunderstood, complex, hallucinatory, dangerous and rare word. Nothing else has made us feel joy and fear, confusion and pain, on the same level as love.
The Windshield Wiper is a short film by Spanish filmmaker Alberto Mielgo, who has worked on all kinds of projects such as "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", "Corpse Bride", "Love, Death & Robots" and even in the visual effects of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1". From its first frame, it already invites us to give a 180 ° turn to traditional animation, which by convention is limited only to children.
In the short film we are shown different vignettes of content, narration, animation, voices, music and editing, which are based on personal aspects of the director's life: emptiness, love and relationships, and how these can influence our perspectives and longings, expectations and disappointments - a philosopher smoking in a cafe while listening to other people's talks about love, a tramp practicing catharsis with a mannequin, a suicidal woman gazing into the abyss, a couple sitting on a beach... two strangers looking for the love that's right next to them in a grocery store...
The entire short film is made up of color palettes opposed to the standard dark = bad, light = good, etc., giving its own and varied personality to the multitude of situations that, developed in more detail, could be one of the best love anthologies ever made.
To speak of The Windshield Wiper as a simple short film would be an insult. It is a work of art in which Alberto Mielgo stamped his essence, from the direction, to the script, the editing and the sound design itself.
The Windshield Wiper is a short film by Spanish filmmaker Alberto Mielgo, who has worked on all kinds of projects such as "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", "Corpse Bride", "Love, Death & Robots" and even in the visual effects of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1". From its first frame, it already invites us to give a 180 ° turn to traditional animation, which by convention is limited only to children.
In the short film we are shown different vignettes of content, narration, animation, voices, music and editing, which are based on personal aspects of the director's life: emptiness, love and relationships, and how these can influence our perspectives and longings, expectations and disappointments - a philosopher smoking in a cafe while listening to other people's talks about love, a tramp practicing catharsis with a mannequin, a suicidal woman gazing into the abyss, a couple sitting on a beach... two strangers looking for the love that's right next to them in a grocery store...
The entire short film is made up of color palettes opposed to the standard dark = bad, light = good, etc., giving its own and varied personality to the multitude of situations that, developed in more detail, could be one of the best love anthologies ever made.
To speak of The Windshield Wiper as a simple short film would be an insult. It is a work of art in which Alberto Mielgo stamped his essence, from the direction, to the script, the editing and the sound design itself.