Blind Vaysha

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Movie
German title Blind Vaysha
Original title Vaysha l'aveugle
Country of production Canada
original language English / French
Publishing year 2016
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Theodore Ushev
script Theodore Ushev
production Marc Bertrand
music Kottarashky
occupation

Blind Vaysha ( French Vaysha l'aveugle ) is an animated short film by Theodore Ushev . The Canadian film was shot by Marc Bertrand for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film premiered at the Berlinale 2016 and was nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards as best animated short film.

action

The short film tells the story of the girl Vaysha, who can look into the past with one eye and into the future with the other. The only thing she does not notice is the present. In her village she is therefore called the “blind” Vaysha. There is no cure and so she does mature into a beautiful woman, but all suitors who ask for her hand appear to her as little boys and old men at the same time. She isolates herself more and more from the world. The decision to tear out an eye matures in her, but she cannot decide which one.

At the end of the short film, the viewer is asked which eye they would choose.

background

The film is based on a story by Georgi Gospodinov . Ushev got the idea while working on the feature film The Physics of Sorrow , which is also based on a work by the Bulgarian author. The film itself is narrated before the animation begins. Caroline Dhavernas took on the role of speaker in both the English and French versions. Linocuts , which Ushev has been familiar with since he was 12 , were used for animation . He used the same technique with Drux Flux (2008) and Gloria Victoria (2013). The film was also shot in 3D . Ushev called it with the help of time as the “ fourth dimension ” as a 4D film. Marc Bertrand took on the production for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) with the support of ARTE France .

The film premiered on February 15, 2016 during the Berlinale .

reception

Blind Vaysha been both the Academy Awards 2017 as Best Animated Short Film nomination, as well as an Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award at the Canadian Screen Awards . This came as a surprise to Ushev, who thought his own films were too avant-garde to be considered at the Academy Awards.

The film had already won the Jury Award and Junior Jury Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2016. September 2016 he won the Cartoon Network Award for Best Narrative Short Animation and the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival . he was also one of the top ten Canadian short films selected for the Toronto International Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ben Mitchell: Theodore Ushev discusses latest work 'Blind Vaysha'. Skwigly.co.uk, February 17, 2016, accessed January 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ Mercedes Milligan: NFB Animations Head to TIFF. Animationmagazine.net, August 4, 2016, accessed January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Ed.): Berlinale 11-21 Feb 2016 Journal (The complete festival program) . Berlin 2016 ( berlinale.de [PDF; accessed January 27, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Victoria Ahearn: NFB animated short 'Blind Vaysha' by Theodore Ushev among Canucks up for Oscars. Winnipegfreepress.com, January 24, 2017, accessed January 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ L'ONF remporte deux des plus grands honneurs à Annecy (French) . In: Le Huffington Post , May 18, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016. 
  6. ↑ Mercedes Milligan: 'J'Aime les Filles,' 'Louise' Take Ottawa Grand Prizes (en-US) . In: Animation Magazine , September 25, 2016. 
  7. ↑ Canada's Top Ten Film Festival Celebrates Homegrown Talent , Toronto International Film Festival. December 7, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2016.