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Christopher at Sea: Antfood Collaborates on New Work from Tom C J Brown

08/09/2022
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Short film to premiere at Venice Film Festival on September 9th 2022

Creative audio studio, , teamed up with , , and to bring director Tom Brown鈥檚 queer operatic thriller, , to life. The film will premiere at the 79th Venice Film Festival on September 9th 2022.

The 20-minute animated film sees the protagonist, Christopher (Jocelyn Si), embark on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. A chance encounter with Third Engineer, Valentin (Andrew Isar) under moonlight waylays his hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea and sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy, and obsession.

Tom Brown is a British Artist and filmmaker, primarily known for his short films 't.o.m.' (2007), 'teeth' (2015), & 'Cousin John - The Arrival' (2020) which collectively won over 50 awards at festivals around the world including Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, and AFI Fest. Tom states: I set out to write a love story, but Christopher鈥檚 romance soon became entwined with my own story of struggle with identity, discovering my truth, a dramatic retelling of the communal showers in a hostel at Sundance, and a rewriting of Mother鈥檚 prophecy. Christopher at Sea is set to the emotive music of Schubert鈥檚 1823 song cycle 鈥楧ie sch枚ne M眉llerin鈥 alongside contemporary music from Casey Spooner, Walt Disco, and the film鈥檚 composers Brian Mcomber and Judith Berkson. Christopher鈥檚 journey, mirrored by the narrative of Schubert's journeying Miller, bursts with emotion and fantasy as the melodrama of opera meets the reality of life on board a merchant's vessel.

Tasked with crafting the sound design, Antfood were able to build on the operatic and contemporary soundtrack to build additional layers of meaning. This was particularly important in the finale sequence, which has no dialogue, meaning sound design can come to the fore. Charlie Blasberg, Antfood producer, offers insight into the process, The deft symbolism within the film gave us opportunities to establish sonic motifs and return to them at special moments throughout the story. This culminates in the finale sequence where we were able to reference important sonic themes and drench them with out-of-the-box techniques, creating an epic crescendo to close the film.

Led by expert sound designers, Bennett Eiferman, Rory White, and Zac Greenberg, the Antfood team spanned three time zones yet managed a totally collaborative workflow over our months of work on the sound design for Christopher at Sea. Some highlights of our process were recording live ocean and ship sounds at a marina in San Diego, capturing drips and wet footsteps in a crowded Antfood bathroom, and recording a live woodwind section for an airy and eerie tone that comes through at the end of the film.

The world premiere of Christopher at Sea will take place at the Venice International Film Festival in September on 9th September 2022. It is the only animated film playing in the prestigious Orizzonti competition selection. 

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