Bilby (short film)

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Movie
Original title Bilby
Country of production United States
Publishing year 2018
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Liron Topaz,
Pierre Perifel,
JP Sans
script Liron Topaz,
Pierre Perifel,
JP Sans
production Kelly Cooney,
Jeff Hermann
music Benjamin Wallfisch
cut Michelle Mendenhall

Bilby is an animated short film by Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel and JP Sans, which premiered at the Festival d'Animation Annecy in June 2018 .

action

In the Australian outback . A bilby tries to bring its fruits to safety. He is being chased by a lizard, but can use a trick to save himself in a hole in the ground. Suddenly he finds a white chick lying on its back. At first he doesn't want the chick to chase him, but when a snake approaches, he has to bring the little one to safety on a rock, which several scorpions immediately climb onto. Even a hollow stump is not a safe place, as a pack of wild dogs is immediately on the spot.

The Bilby lets go of the red fruits that the rhinoceros beetles roll away and now has to save the little one from one dangerous situation after another. He has to protect him not only from dangerous and wild animals such as spiders, piranhas, a shark and a frilled lizard, but also from crocodiles and angry swarms of insects. At the risk of his own life, he maneuvers him through hordes of porcupines, ostriches and kangaroos roaming the outback, has to keep him hidden from the wolves during the night and free him from the beak of a pelican. But dangers lurk not only in the animal kingdom. A rolling rock threatens their lives, as do the Australian bushfires and quicksand. It also protects him from rain and storm and from ice and cold.

When he believes that he has brought his little protégé to safety, he releases him into the air on a high rock ledge. But suddenly the little one is grabbed by a bird of prey. Bilby bravely jumps after Bilby and thrashes the bird until it drops its new friend. On the way down he sets it down safely on the ledge. Bilby, which continues to fall, is now also on the upswing and is pushed back up by this.

When the little white chick turned into a powerful albatross some time later , the two are still friends.

production

As Bilbys are mainly in Australia bilby called, a kind from the marsupial order of the bandicoot.

The US production was directed by Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel and JP Sans. The dangers they let Bilby and his protégé encounter in the Australian outback are manifold:

The film was first shown in mid-June 2018 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy . In spring 2020 it was shown as part of the virtual We Are One: A Global Film Festival .

Awards (selection)

Palm Springs International ShortFest 2018

  • Award for best animated short film with the audience award (Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel and JP Sans)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cérémonie de clôture. In: annecy.org. Retrieved June 7, 2020 (French)