Canhead
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Canhead |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Timothy Hittle |
| script | Timothy Hittle |
| production | AtomFilms |
| music |
Brian Kearney Gray Larsen Nathan Storm John Terrill |
| camera | Chris Peterson |
Canhead is an American plasticine animated short film directed by Timothy Hittle in 1996.
action
Jay Clay is walking in the desert with his blue dog Blue. Both take a rest and Jay has to find out that his backpack has a hole and his food must have fallen out on the hike. Instead, there are only green worms in the backpack. While Jay desperately collapses on a stone, Blue jumps away. A little later Jay follows him, crosses a field in which rifle heads are stuck in the ground and sees Blue standing at the other end of a deep abyss. Jay can't get to him and the dog disappears into nowhere.
Jay cries for him when suddenly one of the rifle heads begins to move. A huge tin monster grows out of the ground and hunts Jay. He can escape underground and finally defeats the monster with his walking stick: he directs it to the ditch into which it falls. Jay can escape to the other side, where he takes Blue in his arms. The peace lasts only for a short time, because suddenly the gunman’s head breaks through the ground not far from Jay and Blue.
production
Canhead was part of a trilogy about the clay figure man Jay Clay and his dog Blue, which also included the films The Potatoe Hunter (1991) and The Quiet Life (2010). The first clay animation films about Jay Clay appeared in Super-8 back in the 1970s . Canhead was created in stop motion within three years .
Awards
At the World Animation Celebration , Canhead received a WAC Award for Best Independent Stop Motion Film.
Canhead was nominated in 1997 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Quest .
Web links
- Canhead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Canhead on bcdb.com