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Logorama

France

2009

16 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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DIR François Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain

SCR François Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain

CAST Bob Stephenson, Sherman Augustus, Aja Evans, Matt Winston, David Fincher, Joel Michaely, Andrew Kevin Walker

ED Sam Danesi

PROD DES Quentin Brachet

MUSIC Bryan Ray Turcotte

Cannes (Semaine de la critique), Stockholm: Best Short Film, San Francisco

Synopsis

The action takes place in L.A. California, early one morning. Several characters, isolated from one another, start their day. A delivery man does his rounds, a waitress takes a cigarette break in front of a fast food restaurant, two cops hideout, a school group goes out on a field trip. Through a series of events, these seemingly unconnected characters will find themselves playing a part in the same tragedy: a hostage crisis. However, just as the human violence is about to be unleashed, nature takes over as a huge earthquake hits: the “Big One”. Everything starts to unravel: the story, the characters, the city itself. Those who can, try to run away, the others are inevitably condemned to disappear with a part of California, engulfed by the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

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Steve Pulaski

20Jan13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5lwyCp72Rs

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Max the Movie Kid

10Nov12

There's logos and advertising characters everywhere! And they're cursing and killing each other! But this isn't made to dazzle us with visuals and nostalgic crossovers. It's something much more thought-provoking.

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Con-Bot 2.0

8Mar12

Pretty funny at times and impressive to look at, but, compared to other short films, it's not one of the best. It definitely didn't deserve the Oscar, but I still appreciate it as a visual achievement.

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    Max the Movie Kid

    8Nov12

    I guess you didn't get any of it. It's more than what you think it is.

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    Con-Bot 2.0

    9Nov12

    Yeah, I guess I didn't. Is it supposed to be, like, a satire of the amount of advertising and consumerism? Please elaborate.

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    Max the Movie Kid

    10Nov12

    The creators said: "Logorama presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks that are destroyed by a series of natural disasters. Logotypes are used to describe an alarming universe (similar to the one that we are living in) with all the graphic signs that accompany us everyday in our lives. This over-organized universe is violently transformed by the cataclysm becoming fantastic and absurd. It shows the victory of the creative against the rational, where nature and human fantasy triumph."

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WhatsUpWill

22Oct11

Grand Theft Logo.

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Sundance 2010: Ronald McDonald Goes On A Bloody Rampage In LOGORAMA

By Twitchfilm.com on April 30, 2011
It’s a good thing for French production house H5 that there is a provision in American copyright law that allows the non-commercial use of copyright protected material for satiric or parody purposes. 
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Watch Oscar Winning Animated Short LOGORAMA!

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
We’ve run clips from Francois Alaux and Herve de Crece’s Logorama before but with the short having just scored the Best Animated Short Oscar the entire film has now appeared online. Want to know why such
read on Twitchfilm.com

Todd (Not Quite) Live-Blogs The Oscars: Animated Short

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
You know, it sounds strange to say it, but I was really afraid Nick Park would win this because he’s Nick Park and I’m glad he didn’t. A Matter Of Loaf And Death is pretty easily the weakest of……
read on Twitchfilm.com

Sundance 2010: Ronald McDonald Goes On A Bloody Rampage In LOGORAMA

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
It’s a good thing for French production house H5 that there is a provision in American copyright law that allows the non-commercial use of copyright protected material for satiric or parody purposes. 
read on Twitchfilm.net

Todd (Not Quite) Live-Blogs The Oscars: Animated Short

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
You know, it sounds strange to say it, but I was really afraid Nick Park would win this because he’s Nick Park and I’m glad he didn’t. A Matter Of Loaf And Death is pretty easily the weakest of…
read on Twitchfilm.net

Watch Oscar Winning Animated Short LOGORAMA!

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
We’ve run clips from Francois Alaux and Herve de Crece’s Logorama before but with the short having just scored the Best Animated Short Oscar the entire film has now appeared online. Want to know why such
read on Twitchfilm.net

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The spectacle of the electric nature

By Alonso Díaz de la Vega on April 9, 2010

The crumbs of the West are dropping like tears from decayed, blind eyes. Few are those who realized that the war was not won, namely, people like William S. Burroughs or John Fante, whose words are…  read review

No feeding the animals, grrr … Logorama

By jaredmo​barak on February 14, 2010

I don’t care if the story is weak, the gimmick is copyright infringement, or the subject matter crass and off-the-wall—H5’s animated short Logorama is a helluva great time. With all the safe bets that…  read review

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