Short of the DayThis life is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it experience.
Death awaits you at every second. How’s that for an opening?
But it’s true, we’re never fully aware of the mortal peril surrounding us with every breath, no matter how vigilant we are. Fate is a fickle mistress prone to flights of menacing fancy and with a mere blink of her eyes existence as we know it can go black and fade to nothingness, taking us with it.
The reinforcement of this would seem to be the central aim of Coda, a nine-minute animated film from director Alan Holly for and maps and plains, an Irish animation studio out of Dublin, that starts with — no spoiler — the death of the central character following a drunken stumble into traffic. In the aftermath, his soul (still a little tipsy, nice to know inebriation transcends this mortal coil) wanders the city blindly until it encounters Death in...
Death awaits you at every second. How’s that for an opening?
But it’s true, we’re never fully aware of the mortal peril surrounding us with every breath, no matter how vigilant we are. Fate is a fickle mistress prone to flights of menacing fancy and with a mere blink of her eyes existence as we know it can go black and fade to nothingness, taking us with it.
The reinforcement of this would seem to be the central aim of Coda, a nine-minute animated film from director Alan Holly for and maps and plains, an Irish animation studio out of Dublin, that starts with — no spoiler — the death of the central character following a drunken stumble into traffic. In the aftermath, his soul (still a little tipsy, nice to know inebriation transcends this mortal coil) wanders the city blindly until it encounters Death in...
- 3/16/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Short-listed projects included On Screen Off Screen and How To Kill Uffie.
Interactive documentary The Flickering Flame, exploring Ken Loach’s 50-year career, has won the Arte International Prize at the Pixel Market.
The website, app and film is being overseen by Ken Loach’s long-time producer Rebecca O’Brien at Sixteen Films in collaboration with Paris-based digital production house Upian.
As previously reported by ScreenDaily, the production will explore Loach’s career through the battles he and his team faced to make his films.
The filmmaker’s son Jim Loach, whose own credits include Oranges and Sunshine and episodes of TV series such as Shameless and Dci Banks, is directing the central, interview-led documentary.
The Flickering Flame was among eight projects in the running for the Arte prize, all of which were pitched at the Pixel Market Finance Forum on Wednesday (Oct 8) and then discussed in one-to-one meetings in the Pixel Market the following day.[p...
Interactive documentary The Flickering Flame, exploring Ken Loach’s 50-year career, has won the Arte International Prize at the Pixel Market.
The website, app and film is being overseen by Ken Loach’s long-time producer Rebecca O’Brien at Sixteen Films in collaboration with Paris-based digital production house Upian.
As previously reported by ScreenDaily, the production will explore Loach’s career through the battles he and his team faced to make his films.
The filmmaker’s son Jim Loach, whose own credits include Oranges and Sunshine and episodes of TV series such as Shameless and Dci Banks, is directing the central, interview-led documentary.
The Flickering Flame was among eight projects in the running for the Arte prize, all of which were pitched at the Pixel Market Finance Forum on Wednesday (Oct 8) and then discussed in one-to-one meetings in the Pixel Market the following day.[p...
- 10/10/2014
- ScreenDaily
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