Borrowed Time (film)

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Movie
Original title Borrowed Time
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Andrew Coats ,
Lou Hamou-Lhadj
script Andrew Coats,
Lou Hamou-Lhadj,
Mark C. Harris
production Amanda Deering Jones
music Gustavo Santaolalla
camera Luke Martorelli
cut Kathy Toon
occupation

Borrowed Time is an animation - short film by Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj from the year 2015. The seven-minute Western - Drama was at the Oscars in 2017 for an Oscar as best animated short film nominated.

action

An aging sheriff returns to the scene of a tragic accident. The closer he gets to the canyon , the clearer his memory becomes. When he was traveling with his father as a boy, their carriage was robbed. Although his father managed to shake off the enemy, the carriage had an accident. He was thrown into an abyss. His son tries to pull him up, but accidentally pulls the trigger of the shotgun , which his father could cling to, and kills him with the detaching shot. Years later he wants to take his own life at this point. At the last second he sees the old pocket watch and finds new courage to live.

background

The independent film was made by the two Pixar employees Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj in their free time and looks similar to the work of their employer. However, it was not published via Pixar, but was made available to the public free of charge via the Vimeo platform for a limited time . It took Coats and Hamou-Lhadj a total of five years. They received help from Gustavo Santaolalla , among others , who composed the music for the film. In addition, it ran at some festivals.

Since there was no pursuit of profit behind the release, the filmmakers wanted to experiment with this work primarily. The film should show a more mature story, which should appeal to the audience primarily through its emotionality. At first they intended to work on the topic of “forgiveness”, but saw the complexity as an obstacle. Instead, they worked on guilt and forgetting.

review

The publication via Vimeo generated mostly positive comments. Only the cartoon-like appearance of the main characters was criticized. The Musikexpress described the film in its report as "perhaps the most emotional short film that the studio's animation artists have ever produced."

The film was nominated for the Academy Awards 2017 for “Best Animated Short Film”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Krüger: Free online: "Borrowed Time" is perhaps the best Pixar short film. Musikexpress.de , October 17, 2016, accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ A Pixar short film for adults. RP Online , October 20, 2016, accessed January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ "Borrowed Time": Dark and beautiful short film inspires the network. derStandard.at , October 18, 2016, accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ “Why We Made Borrowed Time” featurette by Borrowed Time. Vimeo , accessed January 27, 2017 .