![]() ![]() "There was a script in form of voice over stories", Tomić explains. ![]() The film has a very specific structure, from musical recruiting to teaching, rehearsals and recitals, and then abandonment. Not all actors were the subjects of his film, but some of the voice actors had experienced similar traumas as the ones he visually narrates. Still, Tomić promises not to use voice in his animated films any more: "Each time someone tells something, most of the audience will have to look down to the subtitles and will miss the picture! All my effort, playful combination of animation techniques, vibrant, vivid, manic work will be overlooked just because someone told a few words!" But still he had to learn a lot from other people voices and experiences. How do you make people concentrate on the mixed techniques while at the same time hearing different children musical stories? One of the early attempts was to have an English-audio description, so that the audience will not have to look on subtitles, but Tomić found it superficial in the end. Making the film was both a narrative and a visual challenge. Daily improvisation from noise to unnoticed moments in concerts backstage were all here collected. "For years, beside music clips, I've been making short dancing and musical collage films, Musical diaries, together with my son, Dren" Miloš Tomić tells Zippy Frames. But the unparalleled enthusiasm and energy flow of Miloš Tomić really compensates for all hardships. After an unsuccessful CNC application in France (x3 times), you can safely say that miracles in Balkan animation are what it takes to make an animated film. Financed by the Serbian Film Fund and the Czech Film Fund, it was produced by Dribbling Pictures (with both producer Iva Divjak and Miloš Tomić,needing to make personal sacrifices here). It is a mixed aim, coinciding with mixed techniques within a documentary setting. His 10-minute film Musical Traumas, which premiered at Animafest Zagreb 2018 (and went on to major festival, winning distinctions and prizes along the way) is self-described as a rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former students, as well as an attempt to visualise music with scrumptious, hand-drawn animation. In the hands of Serbian animation director Miloš Tomić, it can be something immensely liberating. ![]() Music and animation is always a welcome (but not always winning) combination. ![]()
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