Adapting six short stories from the collection of the same name, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman is an examination of the real and the imagined, with even the slightest bend towards the fantastical being presented plainly as part of the mundane. The unique approach to rotoscope in the film, which combines live-action reference footage with CG models for the characters’ heads, makes everything feel stilted and slow with one foot steadily in the surreal and the other one firmly planted in the ordinary, creating a dreamlike state which is very appropriate for a film where characters question the very nature of what they see and know and experience.
Adapting six short stories from the collection of the same name, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman is an examination of the real and the imagined, with even the slightest bend towards the fantastical being presented plainly as part of the mundane. The unique approach to rotoscope in the film, which combines live-action reference footage with CG models for the characters’ heads, makes everything feel stilted and slow with one foot steadily in the surreal and the other one firmly planted in the ordinary, creating a dreamlike state which is very appropriate for a film where characters question the very nature of what they see and know and experience.
