Robinson Crusoe Inspired Animated Film ‘The Island’ Spins Off AR Exhibition, Board Game (EXCLUSIVE)

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Marta Balaga Romanian animator Anca Damian’s psychedelic, musical take on the Robinson Crusoe’s story, “The Island,” will be accompanied by an AR exhibition inviting the audience to further explore its colorful universe, Variety has learned.

A board-game based on her seventh feature has also been developed, mirroring its protagonists’ search for paradise in the film.Set to bow at Rotterdam Film Festival, “The Island” was produced by Aparte Film, with Best Friend Forever handling international sales.Despite referencing his most famous creation, Damian doesn’t care for Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel, she says. “It was written a long time ago and it has no meaning now.

It’s awful. The way Robinson Crusoe thinks that he is saving the so-called ‘savage’… The whole thing is unacceptable.” The project – her first since 2019’s “Marona’s Fantastic Tale” – was inspired by a concert performed by Ada Milea and Alexander Balanescu, itself based on the play by surrealist poet Gellu Naum, also called “The Island” (“Insula”).“There is a thread of all these other interpretations, but I changed the set-up,” says Damian, who kept the musical structure and updated the story.

Now, Robinson Crusoe is a doctor, holding onto his iPad, and his faithful companion, Friday, a refugee – the only one who survived after his boat capsized on the Mediterranean Sea.“Europe’s attitude towards refugees is so hypocritical.