Fifty Percent Gray
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fifty Percent Gray |
| Country of production | Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 3 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ruairí Robinson |
| script | Ruairí Robinson |
| production |
Seamus Byrne for Zanita Films |
| music | Anthony Litton |
Fifty Percent Gray is a 2001 Irish computer-animated short film directed by Ruairí Robinson .
action
A soldier wakes up on an endless dark gray area under a light gray sky. His stomach is shot through. He discovers a television that he turns on. A speaker greets him in heaven , the image disappears. The soldier moves away from the television and later sees something in the distance on the surface that turns out to be the same television. He shoots himself in the head.
The soldier wakes up in front of the television and switches it on. The speaker greets him in purgatory . The soldier shoots himself in the mouth and wakes up in front of the television, whose spokesman greets him in hell . The soldier destroys the television.
production
Fifty Percent Gray was created within six months with a budget of 10,000 euros. Robinson only developed the idea for the film at short notice after producer Seamus Byrne had drawn his attention to a film grant, the application period for which would have expired in 14 days - within two weeks Robinson had conceived the plot and completed the first storyboards, which he would use with the grant could implement.
The film has been shown at over 70 film festivals.
Awards
Fifty Percent Gray was in 2002 for an Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film nomination," but could not against the Birds prevail.
The film won the Best Animated Short Film Award at the London Effects and Animation Festival. The film received the Youth Jury Prize at the Dresden Film Festival .
In 2003 it was also nominated for an IFTA Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards for Best Animated Film.
Web links
- Fifty Percent Gray in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See ruairirobinson.com
- ↑ Taylor Jessen: Ruairi Robinson - Fifty Percent Gray / 2001 . In: Mike Judge, Don Hertzfeldt (Ed.): The Animation Show . P. 26.