The main titles developed by studio Vallée Duhamel for creative festival OFFF Barcelona 2017 are an elegant piece that gets more complex with every spritely step.

Directed by Eve Duhamel and Julien Vallée and featuring interlacing choreography by Isabelle Boulanger, the sequence presents a jumble of youthful characters and their light accoutrements: a sweater, a paper airplane, a book, a ball. In this lofty and pensive piece, simple shapes and vibrant colours take centerstage, moving and being moved with a sleepy grace. The overlapping technique comes from the experimental and Oscar-winning 1982 short Tango by Zbigniew Rybszynski, a mesmerizing film in which a single room gets progressively more crowded as characters and their paths are superimposed. For OFFF Barcelona, Vallée Duhamel take a highly polished approach to this idea, calling upon costume sponsors including COS and Laugh by Lafaille, among others, the influence of fashion and commercial advertising present in every frame. The music, “Pressure” by Milk & Bone, lends everything a sweetness and innocence, a sprig of play and discovery. Like the opening to Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, a plethora of meticulously groomed characters inhabit a tightly curated space while drifting in a world of their own.