The Coin In Chinese New Year holidays, finding the coin inside the dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. A young woman loses a jar on her journey to a new country, which contains the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coin.
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A solid follow up to her Oscar-nominated Sister, Siqi Song continues to showcase her unique stop-motion aesthetic with The Coin. The blend of food and culture here is fascinating, everything looks gorgeous, and the story is well-suited to the tone created by Song's animation style. Initially, I thought that the narration would wear thin, but Song cleverly moves beyond the narration after the exposition and delivers an engaging visual tale.
Great short movie, beautiful artistry in the woollen textures.
Academy award nominated filmmaker Siqi Song's short THE COIN makes case for its uniqueness with the following two, quite original, choices -
1) The surreal sequence in the second act, an unadulterated (audio)visual storytelling extravaganza directly aiming for multiple interpretations.
2) The (possible) undoing of the nightmare with a sense of everyday wisdom.
Song is clearly utilizing certain ways of keeping the viewer glued to the film, like opening with a montage or unlocking animation's believability to put characters in dumpling soup, but most importantly she's not afraid of breaking & shifting tones, within such a short period of time. Of course there are allusions, particularly that of immersion in the food or more like the food consuming an individual, that…
Jeg elsker stop motion/enkeltbildeopptak, men jeg tror fortellingen ble liiiiitt for vag. Følelsen av å ha mistet noe dyrebart slår ikke helt igjennom hos meg. Vet ikke om det dreier seg om forsoning for myntene som er gått tapt, eller søken etter en erstatning for det.
I really want to watch Sister by Siqi Song but I can’t find it anywhere. However, I came across this shirt with the same visual style so I wanted to give it a go. Song has a beautiful aesthetic and a lovely way to tell a story. I really can’t wait to watch Sister. It’s got me so much more excited.
Part of Brooklyn Film Festival's Comedy & Fantasy Animation Block (available for free with registration until June 7th) www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/theater-lobby
Definitely not as heavy as her last short Sister but still obviously made with a lot of love and purpose. Maybe a little *too* slight. But still, I'll be excited to see whatever Siqi Song does next.
I adore stop motion, so I couldn't rate this any lower. Sadly on the story front this short just didn't do it for me. I lost so many things on trains and yet I didn't really conect with her or her feeling of loss. I guess the message was, that the possesion wasn't that important, because you will always keep the memories.
A bit too thin a story to get to the point, but a beautiful animation nonetheless!
★★★ = Directing
★★ = Narrative
★★★★ = Visuals
★★★ = Performance
★★★★ = Sound
Ranked: 2019
Challenge: 58/52 Films by Women
Jeg elsker stop motion/enkeltbildeopptak, men jeg tror fortellingen ble liiiiitt for vag. Følelsen av å ha mistet noe dyrebart slår ikke helt igjennom hos meg. Vet ikke om det dreier seg om forsoning for myntene som er gått tapt, eller søken etter en erstatning for det.
🥟 Can’t describe many films as “infinitely cuddly” but this is very much that.
A solid follow up to her Oscar-nominated Sister, Siqi Song continues to showcase her unique stop-motion aesthetic with The Coin. The blend of food and culture here is fascinating, everything looks gorgeous, and the story is well-suited to the tone created by Song's animation style. Initially, I thought that the narration would wear thin, but Song cleverly moves beyond the narration after the exposition and delivers an engaging visual tale.
Academy award nominated filmmaker Siqi Song's short THE COIN makes case for its uniqueness with the following two, quite original, choices -
1) The surreal sequence in the second act, an unadulterated (audio)visual storytelling extravaganza directly aiming for multiple interpretations.
2) The (possible) undoing of the nightmare with a sense of everyday wisdom.
Song is clearly utilizing certain ways of keeping the viewer glued to the film, like opening with a montage or unlocking animation's believability to put characters in dumpling soup, but most importantly she's not afraid of breaking & shifting tones, within such a short period of time. Of course there are allusions, particularly that of immersion in the food or more like the food consuming an individual, that…
Begins with a straightforward, autobiographical narrative tale and then hits you over the head with ambiguity midway through. So The Coin manages to simultaneously confuse and make perfect sense. I wasn't happy with how I felt by the end but I'll never stop adoring this animation style -- especially when it is executed this well -- and I'd be so down if someone made an entire cooking show in this format.
Siqi Songot tavaly Oscarra jelölték a Sister című kisfilmjéért, amit a CalArts-on készített, most meg a kövi (első független)filmje, a The Coin is Oscar-esélyes lehet. Mindkét filmje nagyon személyes, hiszen saját maga és a gyerekkori élményei a kiindulópontok, de a Sister erősebb volt a kínai egygyerekes családmodellel. Valószínűleg ennek a hulláma tartott ki a The Coin esetében is, mert önmagában ez inkább csak egy aranyos coming of age minisztori.
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