The Last Garden
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​Festivals: Wildscreen, Longlisted Student BAFTA, Manchester Animation Festival, Piccolo, Linoleum, Menigoute, BFI, Good Natured 2024, London Breeze Festival, Annie Awards, Poitiers, Aavistus, Balkan Can Kino, Travelling Rennes Film Festival.
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Prizes: Most Optimistic Film, Best Student Film​
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Statement of intent:
The Last Garden is an animated film using 2D and 3D paper multiplane as the main material technique. The film takes the form of paper animation to feel organic and to resonate with the environmental theme. At a time where we need to fight against the climate crisis and for environmental justice more than ever, we decided to make this film because we observed that there often is both a generational and ideology gap that blocks people from joining environmental movements. Activism can take many different forms and for me it was important to highlight that what is important is to come together.
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Synopsis:
A bee flies through a loud, smog-ridden city when it encounters seventy-year-old Henry, a gentle soul. Every day, he escapes his monotonous job to the city's last community garden. It is a jungle of colourful and vibrant life: Animals, bugs, and plants all living symbiotically with the gardeners. Until today. Drilling! Banging! Hammering! The decision has been made to build a shopping mall that will tear this garden apart. Henry is paralysed with confusion when Narjisse, a passionate young activist, instantly starts aggressively trying to rally the sceptical community, to no avail. Henry finds Narjisse’s approach disruptive and patronising. Instead, he smugly writes a letter to the Mayor. Days later, Narjisse is still protesting. Henry, annoyed, expresses his exasperation at her method. In the distance, diggers start rumbling. Henry and Narjisse, two generations, start to realise they will need to join forces.
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