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This deeply moving animation film was something close to ten
years in the making: and it shows in the careful craftsmanship and in the
meticulous detail of the images. The animations themselves are made up from
a combination of two dimensional, remastered childrens' drawings of their
own experiences and of digitally animated main characters. These characters
all experience very different, but similarly moving and traumatic effects of
the conflicts and displacement in Columbia: the film brings the four
together in a union of stories.
The beautiful Little Voices,
real children who were interviewed to tell their own stories and asked to
illustrate their tales, bring a new and innocent attitude to the events in
Columbia. The pure truth of their voiceovers telling of life before, during
and after their displacement is enough to move you to tears. The film is a
masterpiece, and is not created only by Carillo and Andrade but by the raw
innocence of the children’s opinions and their breathing life into their own
drawings.
As an animation it is also very interesting; using a simulation of a
‘camera’ which moves and pans out as though it is filming a real sequence.
We are drawn into the world of Pequeñas Voces as though it is reality; we
forget it is an animated movie almost entirely. The film, altogether, was
beautiful. The most incredible aspect was the attitude the children have,
harboring no resentment and no bitterness, happy with their lot, despite the
trauma it had presented them with. The optimism of their view of life is
quite contagious, the beauty of the film resounds for some time after
leaving the cinema.
10:09:2010 |
di Abigail Jones-Walters