Consolation to Spare         Short film by Stéphane Rodriguez


Role: Production, Direction, Art Direction, Filming, Animation, Writing, Editing






“Consolation to Spare” is a short sci-fi poetic essai film in development. The initiation of the project started around fashion art director Fabien Baudin’s brand named “Arctic”. I had initially created a series of abstract visuals for the launch of his brand that inspired me to expand on toward a short film. 
This is an experimental , one-man project where I’m creating everything from the script, the writing, the filming, design and animations. The art project allows me to create in the intersection of many of my passions, film, storytelling, visual art and design. The inspiration for this short came from the north pole, the arctic circle as the theme. The North star, the aurora borealis, the scientific bases, 
the cold and harshness of the elements, the water, the ripples and the ice refractions. All of these visual queues somehow inspired me with the notion of timelessness that settled the idea of sci-fi. The begging or the end of time. The first human, the last being, a cyborg, the end of humanity, the rise of a new reign. The data streams versus the cold gulf stream. 
Visual ideas and experimentations inspired the premises of a poem. Concepts in the poem lead to more visual ideas. The creative process is mutually fed by words and abstraction. This project is currently in development.






“17 billion years, in a blink of your eye
it all began in the big north”





















“constellation of the bear, coordinates 66’33’46.7
Typhoons calcutations, all models keep failing”











“Lines of codes shaping rivers under her skins
Gulf stream”






“Science man seeking for peace of mind,
They died for the millionth time today Did the very first sunrise ever happened?”




“Grandeur meets desperation, there must be an explanation
Tomorrow, our eternal tourment
Stardust is what thoughts are made of”





















“Today, today is when we shall play..”








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