Toast

One argument: whether to get out of bed. There’s a point where it outruns anything she can do on camera. That's where I came in.

The film was written with the frontal lobe switched off — first thought, no editing, keep going. Illustrating that would have meant thinking about it, which was the one thing I wouldn’t do. So I made the images the same way the words were made.

For sixty seconds the film stops being about seeing her and becomes the argument itself.

5 min · 1 min of animation · 2024

Narrative · Steak & Rosé

Poster for Toast: a sleeping woman floats in midair — Steak & Rosé.

First thought,
no going back

Final Frames

Bare feet stand on shards of broken glass, each reflecting a fragment of an earlier scene — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A single glowing toaster coil against a bright yellow background — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
Smiling lips float in a dark void, surrounded by swirls of color — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
Colorful leaves blow past a ringing alarm clock — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A woman smiles in her sleep, sitting in front of the ocean and sky — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
In an empty room with a single chair, curtains blow beside an open window looking out to sea — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A sleeping woman's face rises through the ground, surrounded by flowers — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
Bright pink and violet flames fill the frame — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
Bright pink and violet flames fill the frame — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A woman sleeps inside a swirling bubble of milk, floating up through a blue void — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A sleeping woman in pink pajamas floats upward, as though underwater — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A woman sleeps face-down, her head resting on her arm, in a puddle of spilled milk — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A large open mouth with bright pink lips fills the frame, mid-word — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A woman's reflection lies shattered across shards of broken glass, her eyes split between the fragments — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A sleeping woman in pink pajamas falls backward from a diving board toward the pool below — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A hand walks up on its fingers and pushes a sleeping woman's head to one side — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A woman's eyes glow white in the darkness of a threatening storm — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A statue of a sleeping woman lies half-sunken in a vast field beneath a storm — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
A woman sleeps sitting up in a dark room as curtains blow in through an open window onto the night sky — Toast, Steak & Rosé.
Dark purple clouds swirl around a full moon in a green sky — Toast, Steak & Rosé.

Credits

Director
Douglas Riggs

Animation Director
Jason Carpenter

Design & Animation
Jason Carpenter · Inari Sirola

Production
Steak & Rosé

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