Guy 101

Movie
Original title	Guy 101
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	2005
length	8 minutes
Rod
Director	Ian W. Gouldstone
script	Ian W. Gouldstone
production	Royal College of Art
music	Nick Rodriguez
cut	Ian W. Gouldstone

Guy 101 is a 2005 computer animated short directed by Ian W. Gouldstone .

action

The narrator tells of a man he met in a chat room. He calls himself Guy 101 in the chat , is gay and lives alone in a multi-story house in Ohio. His partner died a few years ago. Guy 101, who is actually called Keith, writes the narrator about an experience he had some time ago. He took a hitchhiker with him who made advances for him on the way. Both went to Keith's house, where Keith undressed. The stranger, however, tied him up and stole his car. After a few hours he returned, threatened Keith with a gun, cut him with a knife, and burned him third degree with a cigarette. Then he loosened Keith's chains and left. Keith confesses to the narrator in the chat that he only regrets one thing: not having asked the stranger for his phone number.

production

Gouldstone shot Guy 101 as a BA thesis in the Animation Department of the Royal College of Art in 2005 . He drew on a true story, directed, wrote the script and acted as speaker. The animation of the film is stylistically adapted to internet chats and online games from the 1990s; Actions of people are represented in the style of chat commands, etc.

Awards

Guy 101 won in 2007 the British Academy Film Awards in the category Best Animated Short Film .

Web links

• Guy 101 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Guy 101 on pachinkopictures.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Fresh from the Festivals: Guy 101 , awn.com, August 22, 2007, p. 3.  ( 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.  
2. ↑ See Guy 101 on feeds.bbc.co.uk