Mr. Hublot

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Movie
German title Mr. Hublot
Original title Mr. Hublot
Country of production Luxembourg
France
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 11 minutes
Rod
Director Laurent wit
Alexandre Espigares
script Laurent joke
production Laurent joke
music François Rousselot

Mr Hublot is a Luxembourg-French animated short film directed by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares from 2013.

action

Monsieur Hublot lives in a small apartment in a mechanized world where people can fly around. Hublot lives in seclusion. His apartment is full of books that he is constantly tidying up and full of framed pictures that he keeps checking for correct alignment. He often switches the light on and off. Hublot, who has numerous ticks, rarely goes outside the door, even if there are some mechanical flowers on his terrace.

If Hublot looks out of his window, he keeps seeing a little robot dog that lives as a stray in a cardboard box. The cardboard box is in front of a large, shabby hall that is available for sale. The dog's barking or yowling is the only irregular sound that disrupts Hublot's life. One day he cannot work in a controlled manner due to the dog's constant barking and looks out the window. He realizes that the garbage disposal has disposed of all the cardboard boxes and shredded them mechanically in the garbage truck. He wants to run out of the house in panic, but is stopped by his tick of having to turn the light on and off. So he only comes out on the street after the garbage truck has already left. Hublot is sad, but shortly afterwards the dog sits down next to him. Hublot takes the dog in. This grows more and more over time, Hublot first takes its regular daily routine and finally the view. When the dog is so big that it can no longer move in the house and threatens to blow up the apartment, Hublot energetically reaches for the cordless screwdriver and dismantles the dog into its individual parts. Shortly afterwards you can see that the action was only for the move. Hublot bought the hall across the street, which now offers enough space for him and the dog.

production

Mr Hublot is based on models by the Belgian sculptor Stéphane Halleux . The film was realized as a 2D and 3D animation with Maya , whereby director Laurent Witz largely acquired his knowledge of 3D animation himself. The film was the first cooperation between his production company ZEILT Productions, founded in 2007, and his production company Watt Frame, founded with colleagues in 2010. The film features the songs Mr Hublot and Robot Pet by Li-Lo.

Mr Hublot was screened at numerous international film festivals, including the Dimension 3 festival in Paris in June 2013, the Warsaw International Film Festival on October 15, 2013 and the Tirana International Film Festival at the end of October . The film was also broadcast on November 5, 2013 on arte .

Awards

The film was shown in competition for the Short Grand Prix at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2013. Mr Hublot won the 2013 Festival Prize of the Kerry Film Festival and received the prize for best short film at the 2013 Animago Festival in Potsdam. The film won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2014. At the 2014 Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart he received the SWR Audience Award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See Mr Hublot on zeilt.com ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeilt.com
  2. a b See Mr Hublot on videos.arte.tv
  3. Mr Hublot on tiranafilmfest.com