Feral
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Feral |
| Country of production | United States |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 13 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Sousa |
| script | Daniel Sousa |
| production | Daniel Sousa |
| music | Dan Golden |
Feral is an American animated short film directed by Daniel Sousa in 2012.
action
A pack of wolves chases a deer, kills it and begins to eat it. A wild boy watches the scene, a wolf approaches him and the boy begins to communicate like the wolf. Their encounter is interrupted by gunfire. A hunter appears in the forest and approaches the boy. He first bites the man's hand, but then lets him take him to the city not far from the forest area. Here the boy is bathed, given a haircut, food and clothes. The man takes him to school where the boy is an outsider. He cannot communicate with the other children. When he is confronted in the school yard with a boy who just wants to get his rolled off ball, the wild boy finds himself in a confrontational situation that he can only counter with growls, bared teeth and the posture on all fours. The children laugh at him at first, but are then scared. As a punishment, the wild boy is locked in a stable. Here the hunter picks him up after a while - the boy flees. On the run, his clothes come off him, he turns into a white wolf, a bird, a leaf and finally goes up in the swirling air in dust, which later falls to the earth as snow. Not far from the city, in the forest, the wolves begin to howl.
production
It took around five years to work on Feral . The film was initially animated in Flash. Each frame (24 frames per second) was printed out and traced in pencil. Then Sousa scanned the resulting images and put them together again. The backgrounds of the film were created in acrylic on paper. Like most of Sousa's films, Feral manages without dialogue.
The film was first shown in August 2012 at the Linoleum animated film festival in Moscow. Numerous international festival performances followed, including a performance at the Cutout International Animation Festival in Mexico in 2012 and at the Sundance Film Festival and the Festival d'Animation Annecy in 2013 .
Awards
- 2013: Nomination Cristal d'Annecy, Festival d'Animation Annecy
- 2013: Junior Jury Award, Festival d'Animation Annecy
- 2013: FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention), Festival d'Animation Annecy
- 2013: Nomination for jury award (best short film), Sundance Film Festival
- 2014: Oscar nomination, Best Animated Short Film
Web links
- Feral in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bryanna Cappadona: Q&A: Dan Golden, Oscar Nominee and Sound Composer of Animated Short Feral . bostonmagazine.com, January 30, 2014.
- ↑ Interview with Daniel Sousa on claralieu.wordpress.com, November 1, 2012
- ↑ Feral on creative-capital.org