SOPHIE has been teased for next week by the artist’s label Transgressive Records.The label released a video on Friday (June 21) that included a list of synchronised timings for cities around the world – London, Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and Sydney – and the date of June 24.The exact moment the video is prompting will come at 6:30pm BST on Monday, June 24. No further information about what to expect has been made available.A post shared by @msmsmsm_foreverNew social media accounts have also been set up under @MSMSMSM_FOREVER, referencing SOPHIE’s former online handle.In January 2021, the pioneering DJ, producer and hyperpop trailblazer died at the age of 34 in a fall from a hotel rooftop in Athens.SOPHIE’s influence continues to be felt throughout music, with Charli XCX’s new album ‘Brat’ including the song ‘So I’, written in memory of her friend and close collaborator.Charli debuted the song live in March at Billboard’s Women In Music event, which you can watch here.Elaborating on the song, Charli told NME: “It’s probably not as simply put as [a tribute] but there is a song on the record which talks about my relationship with SOPHIE.
‘Savages’: How Claude Barras Went From His Oscar-Nominated ‘Zucchini’ to the Jungles of Borneo for Next Stop-Motion Epic
11.06.2024 - 07:29 / variety.com
Alex Ritman In live-action filmmaking, a continuity error may be very annoying, but is usually straightforward to fix — simply reshoot the scene again. In the painstakingly slow world of stop-motion animation, where seconds of footage can take months to shoot, it can be something of a headache. So when Claude Barras realized that that he’d filmed several segments of his new film, “Savages,” with his lead character, the teen girl Keria, not carrying the rucksack she’d had on earlier in the story, he had a problem.
In the end, and following a lengthy brainstorming session, the addition of a large farting monkey proved to be the perfect solution. “We decided that the monkey was going to steal the bag and give it back to her,” Barras explains. And while the loud accompanying fart may not appear entirely necessary, it also served a purpose.
“We wanted to introduce a bit of humor, because the film is obviously quite dark,” he says. “Savages,” which screens in competition in Annecy (it screened out of competition in Cannes), arrives eight years after Barras’ critically adored directorial debut, “My Life as a Zucchini,” which bowed in the 2016 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. It went onto international acclaim, picking up two Cesar awards and an animated feature Oscar nomination.
Like “My Life as a Zucchini,” “Savages” is an animated visual spectacle, with adorable, wide-eyed characters living in a sumptuously colourful world. Also like Barras’ previous feature — about a young boy sent to an orphanage — it packs a sizable emotional punch, both in the story and the way it’s told. Taking inspiration from his grandparents, who lived around nature in the Swiss Alps, Barras set his tale — for which he started sketching ideas while on
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