The invisibles – A film by Edgar Humberto Alvarez
The invisibles is a clay animated short of 6 minutes where the streets from LA will be the scenery, intending to make visible the invisible, showing through different characters a day in the lives of homeless people, the ones that survive, underlie, or live in a different reality due to their lunacy, youngsters with a broken American dream, war veterans, drug addicts, lonely people with no family, victims of the economic or emotional crisis.
Credits
Director: Edgar Humberto Alvarez
Music: Manuel Borda
Assistant: Amanda Rodríguez
Année : 2015
Pays : USA / Colombia
Durée : 6 minutes
Production notes
The invisibles become all of those that we don´t want to see many times because they remind us where we don´t want to be and where we are heading with our indifference.
I bumped with this project while walking on the streets, I got to see reality from another perspective in the city of LA where not having a car and moving around the streets carrying a backpack or bags represent a symbol of indigence and poverty, where the shopping cart a symbol of consumerism becomes the mobile house of many, where solitude becomes their only companion.
Biography
Edgar Humberto Alvarez is a Colombian animator, artist, director and illustrator.
Master in Plastic Arts from the Faculty of Arts of the Francisco José de Caldas District University, Bogotá. He is the author and co-author of books on plasticine techniques.
As a host he has been present in the history of Colombian television, participating with his work in programs such as Pilísimo, Magical Compass, Green apple, Jack the alarm clock, Snipers, among others. Internationally, he has produced animations for television channels such as Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, Univisión and Telemundo.
He worked with Webster Colcord on Primus’ Candyman music video. He has directed and animated several experimental shorts such as Psyclay, Danza macabra and Hallow Clay, winner of the Producer Guild Contest in Los Angeles. Edgar won the award for best documentary for The Invisibles at the Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival in Los Angeles.
He is currently directing the short film MeMORIA, Historia de Colombia en Construcción, with a transmedia focus, on the history of the armed conflict in Colombia.