Nicolás P. Villarreal’s ‘ON/OFF’ Positive aspects Guinness World Document Recognition

It’s not usually one hears of impartial animation coming into the annals of world-breaking information, however such is the case for Nicolás P. Villarreal’s animated brief ON/OFF, featured by AWN again in 2021 following its Oscar qualification (and, after all, its quite a few awards!). The movie initially premiered in 2020 at numerous movie festivals in Europe, Latin America, the USA, and Canada.

Created by the Villarreal – a California-based Argentinian movie and animation director, ON/OFF has been formally entered into the Guinness World Record for “Most awards won by a short film.“

The charming seven-minute brief celebrates construction, self-discipline, and focus. It’s illustrated totally in colourful, summary shapes – together with the character design. The movie ON/OFF has apparently gained an astounding 1,125 awards.

Directed by Villarreal, the movie was produced by the group on the Crimson Clover Studios, producers of his different award-winning animated shorts, Pasteurized and Nieta. He’s at the moment engaged on a live-action characteristic, with taking pictures slated to start the top of 2023.

Villarreal famous, “having obtained the Guinness Document offers the brief one other alternative to attain better attain, affect, and significance with the message, which is crucial factor.”

ON/OFF conveys Villarreal’s view that present expertise and social media generally is a important distraction to inventive minds and self-discipline. It evokes audiences to query how a lot time they dedicate to their passions if they’re distracted by “ephemeral content material and interactions on social media and the way this could interrupt the inventive course of.”

It additionally speculates on what inventive geniuses like Frida Kahlo, Da Vinci, Beethoven, and Tesla would do if that they had entry to trendy expertise. ON/OFF makes use of surreal settings to reply this query, for instance, displaying Frida Kahlo in a contemporary context, balancing her life between creative inspiration and the distractions launched by expertise.

“Two totally different worlds that meet in a subway automotive that appears to be touring in direction of the future of humanity,” Villarreal writes. “ON/OFF is an invite to combat to attain our objectives. To depart behind any distraction that will get in the best way, and above all, to purpose for the very best.”