Destino
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Destino |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominique Monféry |
| script |
Salvador Dalí John Hench |
| production |
Roy E. Disney Baker Bloodworth for Walt Disney Pictures |
| music |
Armando Domínguez Michael Starobin |
| cut | Jessica Ambinder-Rojas |
Destino (translated: fate ) is an American animated short film . The film was started in 1945 as a collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí , abandoned the following year and completed in 1999 under the direction of Dominique Monféry . The premiere of the film took place in June 2003.
action
A woman walks in a surreal, desert-like world towards a triangular stone monument depicting a man and a clock - the embodiment of Chronos . There is a white ball next to the monument. In her mind the woman becomes oversized and the triangle disappears in her hands to make way for a new world. In it the woman dances and approaches the male stone statue of Kronos for a kiss, but the latter shrinks back from her. She runs up the tower of Babel and her dress is held by helmet-wearing eyes on the ground, so that she takes refuge naked in a shell that falls to the ground. The woman jumps out and walks away on oversized telephone receivers.
The woman wakes up from her thoughts and looks at the floor. Not far from the triangular monument, she recognizes the shadow of a bell and merges with the shadow in the desert-like area - she becomes the embodiment of the bell, rises and the shadow disappears. She is now wearing a long, bell-like dress and begins to dance freely. The monument to Kronos is crumbling. The woman's head turns into a dandelion and one of the parachutes hits the monument, which now comes to life. The man falls to the ground, the clock melts and ties the man to the monument, who, however, can tear himself away. Ants crawl out of the hand of Kronos, transforming themselves into cyclists and riding like a mountain in the hand. Kronos catches a dandelion umbrella that looks like a dancer. The umbrella flies on and turns into the woman who turns to the man.
She rushes to him, but the ground beneath her begins to sink as the sands of time and man and woman cannot come together. She sends him swallows and turns into a face with other things around her. The man, in turn, becomes a baseball player fixated on the ball near the monument. By merging two turtle-like figures, the ball becomes a ballerina, who loosens her head and passes it to the man as a ball. The man beats away the ball, which becomes an oversized heart, which in turn is seized by the stone man and disappears in his hands. What remains is the memorial with a hole through which the bell can be seen, which sends dandelion parachutes when it hits.
production
The storyboard of Destino was begun in late 1945 by John Hench , who worked at the time for Disney and Salvador Dalí . Walt Disney was closely involved in the making of the film as a producer and attended meetings between Hench and Dalí who dealt with the development of the film. Some of his ideas were incorporated into the film's storyboard, but are not reflected in the finished film. The collaboration with Dalí, with whom Disney was friends, was also part of a new strategy of the Disney studio, as Walt Disney explained in an interview in 1946: “Like the one-night-on-bare-mountain- sequence in Fantasia that Kay Nielson created, I want to give other great artists this opportunity [of collaboration]. We need them. We must continue to break new ground. "
The film was planned as part of a Three Caballeros- style compilation . However, after eight months of work on the film, the project was interrupted. One reason for this was, among other things, economic problems at Walt Disney Studios after the end of World War II . Hench made a short animation sequence of the film about 15 seconds long in the hope that this would rekindle Walt Disney's interest in the film. Still, Walt Disney gave up the project for financial reasons, especially since compilation films had gone out of style, even if he later regretted his decision. Since then, the film has been known as "the Loch Ness Monster , a legendary film that no one will ever see".
While working on Fantasia 2000 , Roy E. Disney , a nephew of Walt Disney's, became aware of the failed project mentioned in the film Fantasia 2000 by Bette Midler . Disney planned to use stills from the film to promote Fantasia 2000 , but research revealed that while Disney Studios owned materials from the film, they did not own them: the contract between Dalí and Disney provided that the Dalí's drawings would become the property of Disney Studios only after the film was completed. Roy E. Disney therefore commissioned Disney Studios France to complete the film. The animator Dominique Monfery acted as director , whose first directorial work it was. The team consisted of 25 animators.
Although the portfolio had been stolen years ago, there were over 100 pen and ink drawings, as well as 15 paintings by Dalí about the film, the storyboard and the 15-second clip by John Hench. Gala Dalí's left diaries and John Hench himself helped decipher the often incomprehensible storyboard. Nevertheless, various scenes did not make sense - Dalí himself had said to the film draft: "If you understand that, I have failed." - so that the film was shortened from eight to five minutes of pure animation at the end. The focus was placed on the love story between the woman and Kronos, while the long and indecipherable scenes of the baseball player were only taken over in a few parts in the film.
The film was largely made in traditional cel animation. Around 20 percent of the film was animated on the computer using the Maya and CAPS visualization programs , including the Tower of Babel, the animation of the bell and the sinking sands of time. The original piece from 1946, which lasts a few seconds, is also included in the film: it is a scene of the two turtle-like creatures with Dalí-like heads that collide and thus form the outline of a ballerina.
Destino had its premiere on June 2, 2003 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy in France and was released on December 19, 2003. The cost of the film was around $ 1.5 million.
The plot is supported by the song Destino , sung by Dora Luz and written by Armando Dominguez (music) and Ray Gilbert (text). The original recording was subsequently edited.
Awards
The film was awarded a Grand Prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Rhode Island International Film Festival .
Destino was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 2004, but could not prevail against Harvie Krumpet . The film was also nominated for an Annie Award .
Web links
- Destino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Destino on bcdb.com (English)
- Information and images from the film (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c See Hench Discusses Legendary Link to Dali and Disney on Destino on awn.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Like the Night On Bald Mountain sequence Kai Nielson designed for Fantasia , I want to give more big artists such opportunities. We need them. We have to keep breaking new trails. "Quoted from animationartconservation.com
- ↑ a b c See Disney / Dali's Completed Destino Kicks Off Annecy Fest on awn.com
- ↑ "... the Destino project has always been the Loch Ness monster, the film of legend never to be seen" Cf. Disney / Dali's Completed Destino Kicks Off Annecy Fest on awn.com
- ↑ Channeling Dali to Make Destino on awn.com
- ↑ a b c Cf. Disney / Dali's Completed Destino Kicks Off Annecy Fest on awn.com, page 2 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See imdb.com
