The short films of VJ Suave trace the origins of a unique visual language — one where animation leaves the screen and finds life in the streets through light and motion.
Run(2011) was among the first experiments in moving projection. Created in São Paulo using a car equipped with a projector and generator, the film features a hand-drawn character running across city walls and trees. He is coming back from work to his house. The city itself becomes the stage, and light becomes the performer. This work opened the path for the technique that would later define VJ Suave’s identity.
Homeless (2011), produced with support from MTV Brasil, VJ Suave established their signature style: characters of light who inhabit the urban landscape. It tells the story of a wanderer and a girl who cross paths in the city.
In La Cena (2012), created in Delta Tigre, Argentina, Ygor and Ceci explored the natural cycle of life through a delicate stop-motion process. Each frame was captured as a long-exposure photograph rather than video, allowing the light of the full moon to illuminate the surroundings.
During a residency at the Shiny Toys Festival in Germany, they produced Trip (2013), a spiritual journey in search of self-knowledge, expanded consciousness, and love.
Together, these short films form the foundation of VJ Suave’s pioneering moving-projection language, fusing analog craft and digital technology in a hybrid form of expanded cinema.
