SUNSCREEN - Animation Short Film 2023 - GOBELINS

Zora, trapped in a space station for a long time after a space accident, begins to hallucinate and confront her inner world.
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Backstage and makings of : / sunscreen.gobelins
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Directors: Xinzhi MA, Yuan LIU, Yufan CHEN, Zixiao YUE
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Music: Mathieu VILBERT
Sound design: David LASSALLE
Mix: David LASSALLE
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Production: GOBELINS Paris - Cécile BLONDEL : [e-mail]
Distribution: Miyu Distribution - Luce GROSJEAN : [e-mail]

[@vanessatears4312]

The amount of work and time and dedication that everybody puts into this art and animation is really awesome.

[@tonik7129]

Yes! Animated thriller. Love it! 👏👏

[@somasaasaa4850]

Incredible

[@raphaelrichard5829]

que dire, sinon pwaaaaaaw!!! eoustouflant ¨¨^^" !!! peut-on connaitre le titre de la chanson qui fait le générique de fin s'il vous plait ?

[@HELLO_KORO]

Look at the Description

[@Potatoes_are_very_gay]

Don’t do drugs :D)b

[@lintc8104]

This could totally be an episode of Love, Death, Robots. The animation, the story telling, the coloring, even the sound and music, are all beyond so many works you'd find in the market these days. And you can see how the work and dedication the team pour into it. 10/10

[@xant8344]

No offense but it's so much better than even the best of love death & robots (Zima Blue).

[@Man_Of_Logic]

@@xant8344it can compare to sonnies edge tho

[@mtdavisss]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@getsideways7257]

You think you made a compliment? :)

[@monelmonelmonel]

​@@xant8344That's not the best

[@hayleygullett]

What beautiful style! One thing that struck me is that, like many other graduate films, the universal theme of overcoming trauma or a deep sense of adversity is once again the emotional backbone. Each artist explores this in their own miraculous way, yet they are all connected.

[@celiaberland37]

It's because studying in Gobelins is trauma 😂

[@chriscooper654]

As an introvert myself, the cost of isolation as presented here hits home. Humans are not solitary by nature, we need each other's company to stay healthy.

[@DangericeDreams]

The extistential dread of being alone in space is palpable here. Huge props to the creator for making such an amazing representation of loneliness and loss.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

Nowadays space stations are a government outpost. Government offices are the most boring thing ever. Space is not a place to be alone, especially if you are being sent inside a poortable government office. At least if it was private you could invent space parkour or something fun to do.

[@dannyjq]

loved the lineless art style that was still sharp and clearly defined, the way the hash marks briefly fade into view at 0:57, the appearance of the mundane vending machine, the smashed screens that foreshadow the smashing of one more screen, the growing ink blot. big fan of the entire sequence and sound design at 2:54 with the shots of the present synchronized to the music, interspersed with the slow motion view of the past that functions as a mirror of the present. i loved the imagery of basking in the vast glow of the sun, how it makes u feel reborn, weightless and free and made of pure light. the title "sun screen" is very clever - the final shot of the eye shaped "screen" filled with sun at 5:51 evokes the sensation of gazing at a fathomlessly large being, while it gazes back with one bright eye. i hope her transport is solar powered (i think that's why the panels light up at 5:13?) and the reason the sun fills her with so much hope is it means she can finally go back home.

[@todd5965]

That’s was actually insane the color choices and the music 🔥

[@haengihorsetheonewhocancoo8855]

It looks so amazing 😫😫😫😫

[@XXIN_Arya]

It looks amazing! Such detailed animation must require a lot of work in production…And not to mention how good the backgrounds are. The art of the entire film is very mature, it doesn't look like a student project at all. If there were a movie with this style, it would be fantastic!

[@comm154]

As always, the attention to detail in these are insane and absolutely beautiful. The story is simple yet deep and emotional, and its something I love seeing with many of the graduates that come from GOBELINS. Not to mention, the music in this was beautiful. If the music is released I'd love to listen to it some more. Also I've got to say they did an excellent job melding dimensions in this, the use of both 3D and 2D animation and backgrounds was beautifully done in a way that really made it feel organic/natural.

[@onepresence9460]

Another Wednesday, another incredible animation short film 🎞

[@Nauetmie]

The animation gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. It was truly wonderful. Congratulations to the team !

[@dundeecake]

What...why are the comments so insane? Like bad? What is happening? This is a gobelins artwork film....

[@bobblesb9766]

I found this work hauntingly beautiful. Yet I'm afraid I don't quite understand. Could anyone please elaborate and further educate me?

[@emthegem8141]

Haven't seen it yet (still waiting for it to release) But I love the style with no drawn borderlines, I'd imagine its that much harder to do colours and whatnot.

[@bowlOnudel]

Me when no weed..

[@lucief.5693]

This animation is so wonderful, i LOVE it all, all the little details the rythme, the music, this is an amazing job bravo !!

[@ABucketOfFish]

what does it mean tho

[@lawrencetyrpa]

Love it! It's great how well the 3D bgs work with the 2D character. Also, this kinda feels like an Love, Death & Robots episode.

[@Biscuits..]

oh wow. oh WOW. The emotion, the animation, the story, the way it's executed and written is just breathtaking. The final shots, the ending song- absolutely amazing.

[@kymmiru]

I loved the song, where can I find this song??? I need it!

[@jehjah3854]

amazing! some of the visual tricks were a bit painful to my eyes, but the fear and desperation felt tangible, and at the sun part I got so many chills like whoah! The hand twist is my fav part, so elegant and pretty ❤❤❤

[@AhoTakoyaki]

The compositing is so magnificent

[@dwyjukamia]

Remember folks, if some hallucination bothers you, get some sunlight and all is well 👍

[@fae2797]

Everything about this animation is so beautifully done, the colors, perspective, angle, storytelling... Absolutely gorgeous!

[@Boin420]

Built like a pixar mum, someones trying to tap into my nostalgia.

[@AgentZ-1844]

explanation : she needs the light of the star to make the machines turn on and communicate with the rest of the universe and be free.

[@CulturesanArt]

I'm over here learning

[@MTSDfreezingFire]

i'm having trouble trying to parse what's going on in this. it looks like the woman is alone and then starts having hallucinations. then she sees light from a star and she continues to hallucinate. but everything else in between is just her hallucinations so.... what is this supposed to be about? what, exactly, are we supposed to know about this character by the end? she desperately needs a psychiatrist, but is there anything else?

[@Sad_matt]

I'll do my best to help explain. I'm not an expert, so take it with a huge grain of salt... we're given the title "Sunscreen" and seeing through to the end we can tell that the sun is certainly important. Everything before the sun shows up is buggy, broken or both. She starts off trying to accomplish a very mundane task and failing (often from several papers shown), while imagery that suggests it's been uncountable days of some event happened. I think from how frustrated she is trying to do this simple thing and how many marks on the wall that she needs the sun just as much as the machines to be fully functional but it's also possible it's just frustration. Next, she's showering in some kind of small hydroponic chamber of sorts. It looks like the only thing on the ship that works, it's got a small successful looking garden and is probably the last spot on the ship that offers comfort/escape. On leaving this, something finally gives. Isolation and hopelessness finally causes a psychotic break (though it's very possible this happens frequently given some clues like broken mirrors, cancel signs drawn on logos etc). I'm not going to get into the psychotic episode... a bunch of glimpses into the past that keep showering little clues to her signing up. There's a moment where it looks like she's hiding with her mother or something, then another moment where someone close slips away, i think the point was to try to express why she may have thought she was a good candidate for this mission. Maybe she has felt a sense of Isolation her while life, and those sort of scenes we catch are enough for us to fill in ourselves. I don't understand the soda machine at 50% off but the can that came out looked like her... I've got a working idea of some kind of one foot in and the other out, 50/50 sold on the plan etc. Either way, escaping all the monitors watching her, the signing her life away and sealing her own fate (perhaps literally as being in a space ship is being sealed in a soda can lol), we see the sun come out. There's some moments that show the character in some transformation state like the sun has imbued supernatural power, but i think this is just emotional insight. The final scenes show she is at some window, normal looking and the sun is in view. All the machines are powered and operational. Perhaps she can finally go home and fix this situation etc. That's all I've got. I probably missed a whole lot of important stuff. There's some great transitions there, like the punching that switches back to the broken mirror. Sort of like not accepting the reality and blaming yourself for what's happened. I don't see too many comments go into any detail like i did, and it can be a little frustrating to see so many comments praise story and animation but not be unpack any of it. I might have it all wrong so if anybody wants to correct me please do it constructively.

[@MTSDfreezingFire]

@@Sad_matt i like and appreciate your insights. i just can't shake the feeling that no matter what the video shows us, the "unreliable narrator" problem is ever-present. how can we, the viewers, be certain about the accuracy of anything we experience in this video? it might ALL be hallucinations of one kind or another. we're led the believe that the woman is going through a lot, but how do we know ANY of it is really happening to her? for all we know she's perfectly safe and surrounded by her loved ones, but maybe she doesn't realize it? or maybe all the things we see/hear are actually happening, and it's some occult stuff going on that's haunting her at her office job? her farm job? her police job? etc we don't have a base line. we don't have a "real" to go by to compare anything to. all we have is one "crazy" character that could be anyone, anywhere, anyWHEN, who is having hallucinations.... and we're led to believe that we can somehow parse the reality from the fiction.

[@bryna7]

Found it boring.

[@Kofi143]

OMG THEY DID SUCH A GOOD JOB WITH THE SHOTS IN THIS FILM! I LOVE THE ART STYLE AND UNIQUENESS OF THIS ALL!!!

[@Azucenary]

Freaking phenomenal. Such a balance between amazing storytelling and breath taking art.

[@michaelsmith483]

So this is very well done. However, I have no idea what is happening other than this lady is crazy in space..

[@elizabethhawthorne20]

This whole creation, artwork, beautiful product of emotion, colour, inner fire and effort has truly made my day, so I thank you all, who came together to produce such a magnificently planned out and executed next to perfection( only because perfection is a perception of one's own ideals), thankyou and bloody WELL DONE!♡

[@RootedandtheWingedBook]

Oh my gosh...I'm crying. That was beautiful. I want to know more about what it means!! She starts and ends with the sun before her - is the difference that she remembers her past, and knows for certain she wants to go home at the end?

[@cataclysticseal2225]

Not many things I can call absolutely captivating. This is one of them, remarkable job

[@veroniquedelafere7474]

What makes this film even more interesting is the intense visual combination of Solaris, The Shining and Twin Peaks. There might have been something else that I didn't notice. These references, though undoubtedly intentional, come very naturally and don't feel in any way forced like they often do in modern cinema

[@satsujin4027]

This is spetacular! Kinda wish they would release the song at the end, I rly like it

[@comm154]

Really hope they do too, its so damn good.

[@mathildepiam7912]

It's the song ''Listen'', composed by Mathieu Vilbert ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/moPHmJiErad-jKcsi=1VzG-lgTP7_PW7rR :)

[@andrew.y.bloodraven9282]

Lol start the video my break is almost over

[@s.o.4956]

LMAO me at work rn

[@markmunroe-hz8rf]

A truly excellent short animated tale👍💯 Far better than Disney. As of now, I prefer independent productions and this one is top notch ❤🎉🌈💯

[@Vanillaqyoo]

So exciting! 🕊

[@hellatodd3743]

I really like this movie. It helped me to survive my fear of the cosmos, because it seems to me that it was in the boundless space that I would feel my loneliness even more acutely. Fine

[@TheYeetQueet]

IT'S SO MUCH SCARIER WHEN IT'S YOUR NAME

[@TheYeetQueet]

And it's so beautiful. I'm giddy hearing my name in something so beautiful and so connected to how I feel. Space is one of my special interests as well, so it really feels like something I was meant to see

[@alec_thetinyhuman9763]

That was absolutely amazing, I hope all of the artists are gonna work on bigger project

[@anggarismayadi5825]

Aku harap kamu baik baik saja...!

[@testplane]

this was amazing!! God this is beautiful

[@lexrith]

The transitions are so amazing !!!! WOW

[@AmbientWalking]

Beautiful. Thank you for this.

[@danielwordsworth1843]

Athmosphere, visuals, feel and transitions were truly heavy but that butt was heavier but really, awesome work

[@evander2347]

Incredible! Fantastic art style, aesthetic, story telling and editing are superb.

[@ARTAFENStudios]

The graphics and animate of this short animation are attractive and enjoyable, and along with a story with an up-to-date and coherent background, it is depicted very well. Since our work is animation production, we enjoyed the video very much. We are pleasures to visit our channel

[@XXIN_Arya]

Talented Chinese group!❤

[@SnarkyPhilo]

Wow! what a beautiful, mind bendy art piece!

[@NicholasAHanley]

I'm ready to watch.

[@katthy092]

I was getting lost in this story and then they just started to repeat "slut" over and over again😂 I'm sure that name may sound cool in another language but it really doesn't in Spanish

[@Drak_Thedp]

Dayumn. Hottible stuff - when you take a job you're mentally unqualified to do and end up in debt for breaking all that expensive equipment...

[@Qwarky]

This was great! Gorgeous and atmospheric and intense! I love these sudden glimpses into worlds with so much wordless narrative and thought put into them.

[@sequelance]

superb work 💯

[@emilykapallen4979]

HOW is this a student film?! It’s so good!

[@Cassiiiie]

Omg je crois que c'est la meilleure animation que j'ai vu des Gobelins jusqu'à présent, énorme bravo à tout le monde

[@timowl26]

Signalis fans: "This feels a little too familiar."

[@TheInfintyithGoofball]

So... she's gone insane? I hope she survives

[@kyutelav8610]

can’t wait!!

[@Tupik89]

Очень красиво, но я нечего не понял 😂

[@HELLO_KORO]

Her simulation was glitching

[@stevenyanis9051]

Someone laced your weed, girl.

[@anthonio5880]

Бесполезные графические страдания.

[@ИгорьАлёшин-р1у]

Ничего не понятно, но очень интересно ❤

[@dundeecake]

so what happened when she docked?

[@bernardlevrier8977]

Plus rien n’est en français aux Gobelins Paris ?

[@Vanillaqyoo]

THAT WAS FANTASTIC!

[@bluelfsuma]

Really gorgeous animation, but the story, or message, went completely over my head. I'm just not one for artsy storytelling, personally.

[@Joel_Itshindo]

DUMP TRUCK !!!

[@latablemagique4716]

Omg

[@Sugariie_]

Amazing

[@Myrlaxen]

Wow! Just, wow!

[@Bunnidove]

Excited

[@Chez09s]

Yooo

[@randomotakunerd]

Ehhh??? It's pretty but just random stuff. And I usually like trippy, abstract stuff but there's nothing that connects whats happening in this vid.

[@Agnes_obel]

Everything from goblins is another piece of art

[@cobwebdragon4611]

Oh my god that ending sequence gave me absolute chills. Freaking out rn.

[@kaaaputnik]

Is the crosshair at 3:36 a visual reference to the way lots of the old apollo moon photographs have registation marks in them, to evoke the spaceflight vibe even more? Or was it just an animation error lol

[@RDNOHEAUTORIZADOCONSEXORNUDE]

Amazing work about LONELINESS AND CORRUPTION with psychedelic views.

[@robertpowser5624]

As it started with her attempt to roll some sort of smoke and her panic of dropping it I assumed she was suffering from hallucinating withdrawal

[@anshul_008]

Absolute genius work.

[@noway1]

Life support for your body is only half the necessary requirements... you also need life support for your mind.

[@tenmice]

That was incredible

[@rogerioelias696]

Em caso de acidentes uma trago de CANNABIS para se acalmar kkkkkkkkkkkk as ideias mas afinal é uma planta medicinal e o melhor voce nem precisa de receita medica para se automedicar kkkk ai o corredor se distorce o a CANNABIS fazendo efeito tá iniciando a viagem kkkkk.

[@GemCB7]

So lonely...

[@quimenga]

I had no idea what exactly was going on, but I was captivated the whole way through, jaw dropped! Angles and use of perspective really creative!!!

[@CushionSapp]

I was worried because the subtitles are only in French. Thankfully, there's barely any spoken dialogue

[@MeribelNova]

This really reminds me of the video Dead Sound made called "Locked Doors!" Was there inspiration taken from it, I wonder? The first half of the plot seems remarkably similar

[@kikithepupper6774]

beautiful animation..

[@notfathh]

pengen rasanya ikut seleksi beasiswa kelas musim panas tahun depan, tapi belom mampu e sama syarat dan ketentuan nya:" semoga tahun depannya lagi diberi kesempatan dan kemampuan, tunggu saya GOBELINS✨

[@ЕленаС-ь7ж]

На орбите нет гравитации. И истеричку вряд ли пропустят на космическую станцию.

[@kakviyzezaebali]

ну когда-нибудь у тебя появятся зачатки интеллекта, и ты поймёшь что такое метафора

[@Gachalei-ze4qz]

This gave me chills I’m so glad I wasn’t watching this at night and instead at 5 am

[@LilakiKonst]

not my cup of tea😶