Shipwrecked

A crazy short film to die of laughter! For children who dream of treasure hunting, desert islands and piracy. Follow the adventures of our two clown heroes. Crazy animation and a very funny ending. The argument on which Shipwrecked is based is quite simple: each of the two characters has what the other desires. The film builds the situation up to the point where it could almost be resolved, but, predictably, it gets out of hand and a fight ensues that results in both losing. The film thus strives to describe the situation as the meeting of two individual logics, two exclusive trajectories. First there is the simplified drawing of the characters and the hysterization of their behavior, which becomes similar to primary impulses (“idiotic”, in the primary sense, that is to say singular). There is the language, reduced to equally primary slogans. Finally, there is the simplification created by the island context, where everything becomes a rare resource, a desirable object that cannot be shared. We understand that, formulated in such a way, the meeting of the two logics obviously cannot find common ground, except in an ironic and forced way, when the two characters share at the end the treasure chest transformed into a frail skiff. Shipwrecked skillfully orchestrates caricature, to the point where it almost becomes geometry. It combines humor and logic to make people think about the ever-renewed question of individualism and the common interest. The choice of the title (a past participle) confirms that, like all fables, it invites us to meditate on the results of our actions.