Breath (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Breath |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 4 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jimmy T. Murakami |
| script | Jimmy T. Murakami |
| production | Murakami Wolf Productions |
| cut | Rich Harrison |
Breath is an American animated short film directed by Jimmy T. Murakami in 1967.
action
A man appears and inhales a swirling cloud. Then he exhales stars. An industrialist with a cigar appears and inhales the stars, but exhales dark smoke that thickens over both men and finally lets rain pour down on them. The man inhales the cloud and exhales a sun. After the industrialist has inhaled the sun and exhaled haze, the man inhales the industrialist and exhales a woman with whom he dances. A bird becomes flowers through exhalation, and flowers become a heart through a woman. The man, however, breathes in the heart and exhales mud, so that the woman leaves disappointed, is inhaled by the man and exhaled as a beer bottle. This is followed by the exhalation of two women, one exhaling the other and the man exhaling a heart. The man makes music out of the heart and soon man and woman are breathing each other with hearts. The woman finally exhales a baby, money is inhaled and exhaled, and it becomes smaller and smaller, and in the end the man exhales a new woman who is inhaled by the other woman and exhaled as a new man. New husband, wife and child leave and cannot be inhaled by the remaining husband. Instead, he produces three widows weeping for him and on the next exhale a dog that inhales the man and exhales a bird. The bird exhales a worm, and the worm exhales a flower, which inhales the worm, multiplies as it exhales and then dies.
production
Breath was the first film Murakami made after returning to Los Angeles from London in 1965. It was also the first film he produced with the Murakami-Wolf Productions company he founded with Fred Wolf .
Awards
Breath won the Grand Prix (later Cristal d'Annecy) of the Festival d'Animation Annecy in 1967 .
Web links
- Breath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breath on bcdb.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Reflections of Jimmy T. Murakami: Breath on jimmytmurakami.com ( Memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )