About
One little elephant has been roaming Barcelona and Madrid's streets for months, relentlessly looking for his one good chicken friend after his sudden disappearance on a Mediterranean beach one tragic afternoon.
Traces of the small chicken anywhere, yellow spots everywhere, is it him or is it just his hurt mind and imagination? Struggling against the elements of nature and the passing of time, he will do everything his tired body can do to find him, for as long as he can.
Production Notes:
This video was born out of love, no really! See I bought this adorable little elephant hand puppet in one trip to Budapest, Hungary where my grandmother lives. He was all by himself waiting for a friendly hand to bring him to life!
I figured it would be very neat to show it one day to my beloved girlfriend who lives in NYC while we would Skype.
But before doing that I found myself thinking larger, and so I began taking this little fellow and my camera to the streets, whenever I could. During months and by chance I would come upon great sightings and then I would make sure I would capture them, always using the little elephant as a witness. I had to learn not to feel embarrassed in public for moving a puppet with my left hand and shooting with my camera on the other, and pretend that what I was doing was perfectly normal. I would be going out to work with the Elephant in my bag in case I would come upon something great. The idea was to make a huge video-love letter during the times we've been missing each other. It was an adventure and a riot.
Credits
Created: Written, Directed, Shot, Edited, Color Graded and Puppeteered by Carlos Opitz
Technical Info
Shot entirely in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.
