La Salla
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Salla |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Condie |
| script | Richard Condie |
| production | Richard Condie Ches Yetman for the National Film Board of Canada |
| music | Patrick Godfrey |
La Salla (Eng. The Meeting ) is a Canadian computer-animated short film directed by Richard Condie in 1996.
action
A man is sitting in his apartment, which is full of technical gadgets. He shoots cows at a picture with a cannon and is happy. He also pulls up a bottle that murmurs various sayings across the floor. Every now and then a devil's door opens and a hand holds an apple in the room. The man always singing declares that he will resist temptation, but at some point he gets up and takes the apple. At the same moment his head is chopped off and the ground begins to move. While the head rolls back and forth and sings, the headless body tries to orient itself. He finally feels his way to the mini cannon and shoots a cow that gets stuck in the nose of the head. The head begins to lament (“I just had everything, now there's a cow in my nose”) and realizes that everything was just because he opened the door.
It becomes clear that the room is actually a box that is held in the hands of an identical man in a room that is identical to the room and is shaken to and fro. The man with the box turns to his cows, which he shoots over a mini cannon. He realizes that he loves life when suddenly a hand over a door holds a red apple into the room.
production
La Salla was created within four years in the style of a comic opera. Condie wrote a libretto for it, which he translated into Italian. The vocal parts were sung by tenor Jay Brazeau . The film premiered on September 7, 1996 at the Toronto Film Festival . La Salla was the first Condies film to be computer animated.
Awards
At the Vancouver International Film Festival won La Salla in 1996 the award for best animated film and received on the Nashville Film Festival 1997 Best of Festival Award.
La Salla was nominated in 1997 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Quest . It was the second Academy Award nomination for a Condies film after The Big Snit (1985).
Web links
- La Salla in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La Salla on bcdb.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Pamela Cuthbert: Night at the opera: Richard Condie's La salla . In: Take One , June 22, 1997. ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ See bcdb.com