The realist animation was helmed by Calum Macdiarmid

 

The organization putting stunning animation to verse, Motionpoems, has released their latest project “On Lockdown,” directed by Calum Macdiarmid and produced by Roxanne Artesona, in partnership with Durable Goods. Macdiarmid captured the loneliness of lockdown with the drive to do more in the wake of George Floyd’s death using stark animation inspired by realist painters such as Edward Hopper.

 

 

The short takes viewers through the negative space of lockdown over the course of a day, following introspective faceless citizens who mirror the somber poem of the same name, by poet and Motionpoems founder Todd Boss. The animation begins “On lockdown a week was a month, and a month was cosmic,” harkening to the listlessness and detachment from days and weeks so many felt in quarantine, before acknowledging the social upheaval surrounding the death of George Floyd and the “darker and lonelier disease” the death diagnosed around the world.

 

Credits:

Director: Calum Macdiarmid
Executive Producers: Todd Boss, Roxanne Artesona
Poem: Todd Boss
Music: Fionn Macdiarmid
Sound: Dugal Macdiarmid