Jun 13, 2019
Bon Voyage Sim (1966)
Moustapha Alassane
Bon Voyage Sim sees a potbellied toad sent by his home government to a neighboring republique, where he’s received with squeaky pageantry. It’s charming in its own right, but also bears an uncanny resemblance to the elaborately choreographed friendship ceremonies held by the newly independent West African nations hosting their former colonial invaders.
The usually invisible labour of repetition that in animation film grounds every stable object is rendered visible in the slight displacements from one frame to the other. Repetition, in other words, becomes non-identical:
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