Cargo (short film)
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| German title | Cargo |
| Original title | Cargo |
| Country of production | Australia |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 7 minutes |
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| Director | Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke |
| script | Yolanda Ramke |
| production | Daniel Foeldes, Ben Howling, Marcus Newman, Yolanda Ramke |
| music | Helen Grimley |
| camera | Daniel Foeldes |
| cut | Shannon Longville |
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Cargo is a short film by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke from 2013 , on which the film of the same name is based.
action
A nameless man wakes up after a car accident in the middle of a zombie apocalypse . His already mutated wife is sitting in the passenger seat and attacks him. He manages to free himself and his daughter in toddler age and to render his wife harmless, but he is already injured and it is obvious that he too is infected and will soon transform. Using a map, he determines the nearest settlement and starts running in that direction to get his daughter to safety. On the way, he first collects giblets in a bag and prepares himself for the eventuality that he becomes a zombie before he can save his daughter: He distracts the child from an abandoned children's party with found toys and cake and ties a balloon to calm his daughter down, he fastened the plastic bag with the innards to a stick in front of him and ties his hands together in front of her body. When he becomes a zombie after a few hours, he "follows" the smell of meat from the bag until a group of survivors sees him and kills him with a long-range shot. When the three examine the person shot down, two of them do not pay much attention to him until the third person discovers the child and takes him away.
reception
Cargo was shot in South Australia and screened at the Tropfest Short Film Festival 2013 and made it to the finalists.
“Cargo therefore offers something unusual: The audience can identify with the zombie. Instead of the traditionally emotionless and faceless monster, we finally encounter a tragic hero. It's a simple trick with which Cargo shows how something new can be extracted from the genre with simple means. "
Web links
- Cargo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cargo on Youtube
- Description on the Tropfest Short Film Festival website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tropfest Feb 2013 Finalists. (No longer available online.) Tropfest, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on March 31, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Eike Kühl: Network film of the week: “Cargo”. Zeit.de , June 30, 2013, accessed March 31, 2014 .