Blindscape

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Movie
Original title Blindscape
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Stephen Palmer
script Stephen Palmer
production Elaine Donnelly
music Simon Lambros

Blindscape is a 1992 British animated short film directed by Stephen Palmer .

action

A blind man wakes up. From the background noise around him, he recognizes that he must be in a forest. He gets up and moves forward unsteadily. Fearing trees right in front of him, he feels his way around a tree and runs into a tree when he flees from a bee. He armed himself with a club because he was frightened by the unfamiliar noises around him. In his imagination he is attacked by monsters and snakes and thrown to the ground. His escape is arduous, until he himself begins to scream like a monster in despair.

A voice asks him if everything is okay. A dog barks. A policeman orders the wild animal to be captured. It turns out that the man saved himself from the dog in a tree - and is now in danger at great heights. Before the man can plunge into the depths, the policeman reaches him and saves him from falling.

production

Filmmaker Stephen Palmer started out as a clerk in Liverpool and got into animation late. In his late twenties he began studying animation at the National Film and Television School near London . His final thesis in 1992 was the short animation film Blindscape , which depicts the world from the perspective of a blind person. He dedicated the film to his paraplegic father, Sydney Thomas Palmer.

Blindscape screened at numerous international film festivals, including in January 1993 at the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers as well as at the Animafest Zagreb and the Chicago Film Festival.

Awards

Blindscape received a BAFTA nomination for Best Animated Short Film in 1993 . The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film in 1994. At the Animafest Zagreb in 1994 the film received the award for the best first work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information according to the short portrait of Stephen Palmer in connection with the broadcast of the short film on BBC2 ( video ).
  2. ↑ According to the film credits.
  3. ↑ Case Study: Blindscape (1994) . In: Paul Wells: Understanding Animation . Routledge, New York, 1998, pp. 123-124.
  4. ↑ Overview of the festival winners on premiersplans.org
  5. ↑ See overview of the awards for Blindscape on nftsanimation.org
  6. ↑ See 1994 award winners on animafest.hr