What is the film about?

In a colourful bar frequented by monsters, a cyborg sings a love song. When a beautiful mermaid appears the song becomes a flirtation between the two. As they start to fall in love a lonely walrus lets his jealousy get the better of him.

Imaginé was made entirely by animator/musician couple Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar Gutierrez.
It is a music video they animated for their song of the same name. It is inspired by their love of music, dance and the culture of Giovanni’s roots on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

What influenced it?

The dance sequences of old musicals such as ‘Singing in the Rain’ and ‘West Side Story’. Classic 1980s music videos, tropical fish and Carribean beats.

A little background information...

We met while studying a master of stop motion animation, being a couple who are both musicians and animators we knew we had to make a film together. This project didn’t start with a clear idea, all we knew was that we wanted to create a music video that didn’t have any human characters. So we settled on the idea of creating a classic music video with monsters playing the romantic leads and built from there.

How was the film made?

Imaginé is a puppet stop motion animation. We wrote the song and built the puppets simultaneously and then spent a little over a year animating, doing post-production, editing and tweaking the music. We made Imaginé with no budget on a desk in our bedroom and most of the materials in the film are made from recycled materials. The camera movements were made with a DIY camera slider made from a broken printer we found in a recycling bin.