Gísli Darri Halldórsson is a 2021 Oscar nominee in the Best Animated Short category for “Yes-People,” the eight-minute film that he directed, produced, wrote and animated. In an exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above), he reveals about the inspiration for the eight-minute film, “I was obsessed with routines and habits and it was my own terror of living my life in a loop. I found a way to marry those together, where characters stuck in a loop can only say yes.”
The film depicts its six protagonists saying “já” (“yes” in Icelandic) in a variety of mundane, everyday experiences over a single winter 1980 day in Halldórsson’s native Iceland, with the word taking on different meanings, depending on circumstances and intonation. He says about the limited dialogue, “I really like creative restraints. I really like that box and creating a space where you can become creative, because the...
The film depicts its six protagonists saying “já” (“yes” in Icelandic) in a variety of mundane, everyday experiences over a single winter 1980 day in Halldórsson’s native Iceland, with the word taking on different meanings, depending on circumstances and intonation. He says about the limited dialogue, “I really like creative restraints. I really like that box and creating a space where you can become creative, because the...
- 4/15/2021
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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