film

Driving Alone

2003

With only a toy truck and a lime, a little boy creates a fantastic landscape full of joy and surprises. But, when his colorful daydream is abruptly interrupted, he is thrown back to the reality of his life alone on the street.

Driving Alone is a film about the innocence of childhood and the great potential for creativity and imagination in children, pointing out to how violence and neglect inflicted on children may destroy the development of this potential.

Bringing expectators into the child’s imagination, the film invites to an emotional connection to the boy’s inocent imagination, leading to an empathic response to the harsh reality he is exposed to living on the street.

Narrative structure and design contrast daydream and reality: the fantasy section has a dreamlike non-linear, free-associative unfolding of events. Its round forms and colorful treatment evoque the feminine and childhood. On the other hand, the point of view in the reality section is static and events occur linearly. Its design is realistic in cold tones of violet-grey tonalities.

Script, direction, design and animation: Rosangela de Araujo
Music: William Ramsay