Alberto Mielgo Interview: Netflix's Love, Death & Robots Vol. 3
The third volume of Love, Death & Robots brings back Netflix's hardcore adult animation, including the the return of Spanish filmmaker Albert Mielgo, who won an Emmy for his season one episode, «The Witness.» The show has developed a reputation for pushing boundaries both in terms of content and ambitious animation styles, and Mielgo's new episode «Jibaro» is a great example of that ambition.
«Jibaro» is a re-imagining of the siren song folktale, containing minimal dialogue and centering on a deaf knight who is immune to this particular siren's song. The siren is intrigued by the knight, who's also drawn to her for the ornate gold and jewels she's made of, creating a dangerous and cautionary attraction between the two characters.
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Mielgo spoke toScreen Rant about his ambitious approach to «Jibaro,» explaining both his ambitious creative process and his storytelling approach.
Screen Rant: «Jibaro» has a sense of tangible realism to it, with so many water simulations or liquid simulations. Did you intentionally put as many difficult things into this episode as possible, and how did you wind up going this direction?
Alberto Mielgo: Yeah. I mean, it was a total technical challenge for real. And when I was coming up to my team with the design of the girl full of chains, and then it's going to be colliding with water. Everybody was like, «My God, can we simplify that?» But I need it to be like that. I imagine it to be like that. Everything made sense when you see it.
Obviously there are different ways that you can do it. You can simplify it. You can put the camera looking somewhere else so you can avoid doing things. But I love technology, and I like to push the
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