Picolïn (SUBTITULO EN ESPAÑOL)
Basic Information
English title: Picolïn
Japanese title: ピコりん
Duration : 30 minuets
Original language: invented language/French
Available Subtitles: English, Japanese, Spanish
Shooting : August 2011-September 2012 in Paris France
Completion : July 2013
Technical information
Shooting camera and format : DSLR camera, mp4
Preview format: QuickTime animation/apple proressHQ422, mp4, DVD
Audio: Dolby stereo.
Credits
A film written and directed by: Yupica
[Producer] Yusuke Katano
[Production Manager] Sébastien Jouber
[Director of Photography] Sébastien Joubert / Yupica
[Post-Production]: Yupica
[Sound Designer] Paul Le Bret
[Illustrator] Satomi Soma
[Decorator] Um Hyeyong
[Creators of Spaceship] Laury Grea / Hiram Gutierrez / Adrian Albert Gallego
[Makeup]Philippe Podevyne/Annco Miura
[Costumiers] Alexia Mulliez/Chrystell Carriat
[Composers] Tin-lü/Sébastien Gulluni/Loïc Happy/Vincent Breant/Yupica
Actors
[Picoïn] Leonid Taichi Nagai / Yupica
[The homeless Gary}: Yann-Yvon Pennec
[The homeless Chicho]: Kaki Rodwan
[The Fairy toilet]: Ines Navarro
[The Japanese] Saori Kano
[Reporter]: Sabine Moreau
[Voiceover (Picoïn, Flower, Picoïn’s girlfriend] Yupica
[Associate producers]
Béji Productions
Koshi Iwata
Miyamoto Yoshisuke
Synopsis in English
Delivered in a language spoken by no human. Kaleidoscopic visual guide the narrative. A first-person view of a first glimpse of Earth.
How might a first-time tourist from outer space perceive Tokyo when he lands? How might this tourist perceive Tokyo if it were, in fact, Paris?
Picoïn, an extraterrestrial with a Quixote-esque sense of grandeur and the innocence of The Little Prince, is determined to experience our planet. Leaving his comfort zone, he boards a ship headed somewhere, anywhere, oh yes, Earth, wasn’t it?
Such a self-assured one as Picoïn is guaranteed a few hitches on his journey, the first of which occurs when he discovers that his extensive preparation – including having learned a language completely dissimilar to his own – to be less useful, as his final destination was off by 6,000 miles. Nevertheless, the creature tries to make sense of his environment by saturating himself in Earth culture, forced to interpret with little basis for comparison.
As the journey progresses, the viewers are treated to a hyper-sensory visual scape which parallels Picoïn’s own overload of new image, sound, and movement. Picoïn’s perspective is our perspective, and his rejection, ours: most humans have no time for us, the stranger. But characters like street people, the spirit-guardian of a public toilet and a wise daisy mark the trip as exceptions.
Filmmaker Yupica draws upon his experiences living outside of his native Japan, imagining the Earth as a sometimes lonely, sometimes confounding but always entirely alien experience. Before contemplating a return to Nngaga, his home planet, Picoïn must maneuver cautiously, as even his physical urges become catastrophic.
English title: Picolïn
Japanese title: ピコりん
Duration : 30 minuets
Original language: invented language/French
Available Subtitles: English, Japanese, Spanish
Shooting : August 2011-September 2012 in Paris France
Completion : July 2013
Technical information
Shooting camera and format : DSLR camera, mp4
Preview format: QuickTime animation/apple proressHQ422, mp4, DVD
Audio: Dolby stereo.
Credits
A film written and directed by: Yupica
[Producer] Yusuke Katano
[Production Manager] Sébastien Jouber
[Director of Photography] Sébastien Joubert / Yupica
[Post-Production]: Yupica
[Sound Designer] Paul Le Bret
[Illustrator] Satomi Soma
[Decorator] Um Hyeyong
[Creators of Spaceship] Laury Grea / Hiram Gutierrez / Adrian Albert Gallego
[Makeup]Philippe Podevyne/Annco Miura
[Costumiers] Alexia Mulliez/Chrystell Carriat
[Composers] Tin-lü/Sébastien Gulluni/Loïc Happy/Vincent Breant/Yupica
Actors
[Picoïn] Leonid Taichi Nagai / Yupica
[The homeless Gary}: Yann-Yvon Pennec
[The homeless Chicho]: Kaki Rodwan
[The Fairy toilet]: Ines Navarro
[The Japanese] Saori Kano
[Reporter]: Sabine Moreau
[Voiceover (Picoïn, Flower, Picoïn’s girlfriend] Yupica
[Associate producers]
Béji Productions
Koshi Iwata
Miyamoto Yoshisuke
Synopsis in English
Delivered in a language spoken by no human. Kaleidoscopic visual guide the narrative. A first-person view of a first glimpse of Earth.
How might a first-time tourist from outer space perceive Tokyo when he lands? How might this tourist perceive Tokyo if it were, in fact, Paris?
Picoïn, an extraterrestrial with a Quixote-esque sense of grandeur and the innocence of The Little Prince, is determined to experience our planet. Leaving his comfort zone, he boards a ship headed somewhere, anywhere, oh yes, Earth, wasn’t it?
Such a self-assured one as Picoïn is guaranteed a few hitches on his journey, the first of which occurs when he discovers that his extensive preparation – including having learned a language completely dissimilar to his own – to be less useful, as his final destination was off by 6,000 miles. Nevertheless, the creature tries to make sense of his environment by saturating himself in Earth culture, forced to interpret with little basis for comparison.
As the journey progresses, the viewers are treated to a hyper-sensory visual scape which parallels Picoïn’s own overload of new image, sound, and movement. Picoïn’s perspective is our perspective, and his rejection, ours: most humans have no time for us, the stranger. But characters like street people, the spirit-guardian of a public toilet and a wise daisy mark the trip as exceptions.
Filmmaker Yupica draws upon his experiences living outside of his native Japan, imagining the Earth as a sometimes lonely, sometimes confounding but always entirely alien experience. Before contemplating a return to Nngaga, his home planet, Picoïn must maneuver cautiously, as even his physical urges become catastrophic.