My hometown
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My hometown |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Terry Tompkins Jerry Levitan |
| script | Yoko Ono |
| production | Terry Tompkins Jerry Levitan for Eggplant |
| music | Yoko Ono |
My Hometown is a 2011 Canadian animated short film directed by Terry Tompkins and Jerry Levitan .
action
The narrator asks if you know what your hometown is. Your hometown is the place you choose, so you should simply mark the city you choose as your hometown with a pin, give it a name and try to find out more about the city, its people, its past and problems experience and improve things in need of improvement - broken houses, garbage, sad children - in his mind until people become happier. You should take care of your hometown, also together with friends who can support you. At some point, the narrator hopes, it will be known that every city is the hometown of some person in the world.
The explanations are accompanied, among other things, by scenes of children in Africa picking out one of the Polaroids swirling in the air, whereupon the scene switches to the children depicted on the Polaroid who are traveling around the world on a train roof. Further scenes show a bespectacled boy who compiles his hometown using photos, to which he assigns words like “love” and “peace”.
Production and publication
In 2009 Yoko Ono wrote the poem My Hometown , which was filmed by Tompkins and Levitan. The illustrations are by Rebecca Levitan. The narrator of the film is Yoko Ono. My Hometown has no further dialogues. The film is accompanied by Yoko Ono's song Remember Love , which first appeared in 1969 as the B-side of the Plastic Ono Band's single Give Peace A Chance . The arrangement of the song was done by Stefano D'Angelo .
The film premiered in July 2011 at the Senza Frontiere film festival in Spoleto, Italy . In November 2011, it was announced that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected My Hometown as one of the 45 best animated short films for the Long List of the Oscars .
Web links
- My Hometown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. cartoonbrew.com ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2011 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.
