Afterlife (1978)

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Movie
Original title Afterlife
Country of production Canada
Publishing year 1978
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Ishu Patel
script Ishu Patel
production Derek Lamb
for the National Film Board of Canada
music Herbie Mann
David Mills

Afterlife is a 1978 Canadian animated short film directed by Ishu Patel . The French title of the film is Après la vie .

action

A light lights up rhythmically, a man dies. His soul breaks away from him. This is followed, illuminated in red and gold-yellow, artistic forms and compositions, large and small structures, people who transform into horses and horse heads that become human heads. Men get wings and merge into new shapes, circles turn out to be heads and merge into new structures. At the end there is a pulsating white light that goes out after a while.

production

A non-fiction book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross about near-death experiences inspired Ishu Patel for his animated film Afterlife . By chance, while working on the film, Patel discovered the light effects of backlit or underlit clay, which vary depending on the thickness of the mass. He first used this animation technique at Afterlife . The images are musically accompanied by Herbie Mann's interpretation of In Tangier by David Mills.

Patel called Afterlife a "mystical movie".

Awards

In 1978, Afterlife won the Montréal Grand Prize of the Montréal World Film Festival as well as a Genie Award (then still Etrog) for best animated film. The following year he received the Grand Prix (later Cristal d'Annecy) of the Festival d'Animation Annecy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikita Banerjee: Interview with Ishu Patel . In: animation reporter . No. 16, April 2009, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Nikita Banerjee: Interview with Ishu Patel . In: animation reporter . No. 16, April 2009, p. 17.
  3. ↑ See Afterlife on the National Film Board of Canada website