More (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | More |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 6 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mark Osborne |
| script | Mark Osborne |
| production |
Steven B. Kalafer for Bad Clams Productions |
| music | New order |
| camera | Mark Osborne |
| cut | Mark Osborne |
More is an American animated short film directed by Mark Osborne in 1998.
action
A man lives alone in a gray, dreary world. During the day he works as an engineer on the assembly line and, under the eyes of the strict boss, puts together little Get Happy machines that are supposed to make people's dreary everyday lives happier, in the evening he tinkers with an invention. His drive is the memory of the carefree childhood, bathed in warm colors, in which he rode a carousel with other children. The memory lives and burns in him and the warm ray of light penetrates out of his body when he opens a flap on his stomach. The fingers catch the color for a short time when he holds it in the light beam and so he has an idea. He has developed glasses that he wets with the color of the ray. When he puts on his glasses, the world around him is colored in the most beautiful colors.
The glasses will soon be mass-produced and the man himself becomes the boss, who treats his employees as tyrannically as he was previously treated. He always wears his own glasses. One day he is sitting in his office and taking off his glasses. He opens the abdominal flap and the light is out. The scene of the children riding in the carousel is now just as dreary as his life was before.
production
More was created within nine months in modeling clay animation in stop motion . The film was shot on the IMAX big screen and was the first stop-motion film in IMAX. At the same time, a 35 mm version for film festivals was created. More was first shown on IMAX in 1998 and had its festival premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1999 .
The title that underlines the plot is Elegia by New Order .
Awards
At the 1999 Sundance Film Festival , More won the Short Filmmaking Award. Osborne received the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival; The film also took first place in the "Animation" category.
More was nominated in 1999 for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ”, but could not prevail against Bunny . The film was also nominated for an Annie Award in 1999.
Web links
- More in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- More on bcdb.com
- More on awn.com ( full article )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Making More Out of Stop Motion on the Giant Screen , awn.com ( Memento of the original from October 25, 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.
