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Alberto Mielgo is an artist, movie director, and animation professional. He was born the 29th of April 1979 in Madrid, Spain, where he was born and raised. He then traveled to Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, London and Los Angeles where he now lives and works.

Mielgo’s personal purpose in his art is to “bring a better and smarter animation for a more target audience.” He has received a Prime Time Emmy award in the year 2013 and then an Annie in the same year under the title of best production designer for the movie “TRON UPRISING”

Alberto Mielgo has worked on a plethora of different projects during his career, but my personal favourites are Jibaro and The Witness for the show Love Death & Robots, and his concept art for the movie Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse.

The Witness

The Witness is a short film Mielgo made for the Netflix series Love Death & Robots. He describes it as being one of his most personal films.

The Witness starts with a woman looking out from her hotel window in Hong Kong. From her window she sees a disturbing scene unfold; a ma from the hotel opposite of hers kills a woman that appears to look exactly like her. After witnessing this murder, the woman tries to get as far away as possible contacting a friend or colleague “Vladimir” to let him know she’s coming over. She arrives at this sex-filled sabbath party where she seems to work at. The unnamed murderer follows her in and proceeds to chase her all the way to his own hotel room. In the end, the woman manages to kill him out of self defence, before she peers out the window to see a man peering out of the hotel room opposite of her, who is identical to the dead man that lay on the floor in front of her.

The style of this film is incredibly captivating, each frame is so packed with visual information and detail. The background design is very thought out; cluttered and packed but somehow always guiding the viewers’ eye to the character in the scene. One thing I noticed in this short film is how most scenes seem to be desolate, there are no characters other than the 2 individuals participating in the chase. There is of course an exception, the brothel scene is the only scene where there appears to be more than two people interacting with each other. Another interesting element of the cinematography in this episode is the camera work; the camera seems to shake and move to give the audience the impression that they are in the same stressful situation as the characters.