In these difficult COVID-19 times, independant artists like me, are struggling.
Everything got cancelled (shows, tours, exhibitions, residencies, studio work...).
With no help from the institutions and no way to perform at public events, we won't last long...
Being a sound designer and composer for this visual art project based on animated films addressed to children, young
people and adults. It aims to listen to the inside voice of different
cultural communities and spread it through the world. I was also asked to compose and produce the soundtrack of the trailer and of the documentary of the project itself.
Animated short film
Flying Istanbul (trailer)
The project is based on the creation of three animated short films
inspired by children drawings, which will represent the realities of Najaf
in Iraq, Istanbul in Turkey and Nicosia in Cyprus. We borrow the children’s
vision of the world and bring that vision back to the children in other
countries.
The everyday life entertaining stories will provoke an interest in the
neighbouring cultures often represented by the medias only through
political and economical events. Seeing through children eyes may strength
a peaceful acceptance of the cultural diversity, willing of the
multicultural dialogue, mutual respect and coexistence of the different
cultural and social realities of the world.
All music & sound design by Jérôme Li-Thiao-Té.
The project is realized through a series of specific actions. At
first, we dynamize three workshops, which are held in the three
cities in order to collect a vision of their societies through simple
drawings from a group of children aged between six and ten. Afterwards, our
team create the three animated films. Starting from the analysis of
the drawings we get inspiration to make the films; taking under
consideration the things the children draw and the places they would like
to tell. When the films will are ready, we screen them in all
the countries involved in the project: Iraq, Turkey, Italy, Spain and
Cyprus.