Blake (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blake |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bill Mason |
| script | Bill Mason |
| production | Douglas Jackson |
| music |
Blake James Laurent Coderre |
| camera | Bill Mason Blake James |
Blake is a 1969 Canadian short film directed by Bill Mason .
action
The film follows the animator Blake James, whom colleagues refer to as naturals. Blake doesn't like being in the city where he mainly comes to work. True to the motto “You don't have to earn what you don't spend,” he drives an old, rundown car. He lives in a cabin in the woods and colleagues report that at first they thought this was an eccentric scam that should impress the women, but over time they realized that Blake actually wanted to live that way. Colleagues sometimes wish they had as strong a thirst for freedom as Blake and could live as freely as he did.
Blake owns a small plane that he often travels for days. He flies the plane without an emergency parachute. During the flight he sings or plays the harmonica . When he runs out of fuel, he flies to the nearest major airport, where you arrive and depart with humor. Since the airplane has no lights, it cannot fly at night. When Blake lost his orientation in the evening due to fog, he ended up on a meadow and went to sleep under his plane for the night. The next morning he is awakened by the arrival of a boy whom he shows the plane to. Colleagues report on Blake's personal life that he was never married and that a friend separated from him because she could not introduce the very own Blake to her parents. Meanwhile, Blake gets ready to take off and finally flies on.
production
The shooting of Blake dragged on for over a year, with Bill Mason filming the flight scenes from a separate plane. The scenes at the airport took place at the Aéroport international de Montréal-Dorval in Montreal . The film does not contain any dialogues, but rather comments from colleagues that are brought in to accompany the documentary recordings. The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada .
Blake was first published in 1969 and ran in 1970 also in the movies as a supporting film to M * A * S * H .
Awards
Blake was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 1970. The film won the Grand Prix at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 1971 and was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film in 1971 .
literature
- Blake (1967) . In: Ken Buck: Bill Mason, Wilderness Artist: From Heart to Hand . Rocky Mountain Books, Surrey 2005, pp. 139-141.