Pixels (2010)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pixels |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 2.5 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Patrick Jean |
| script | Patrick Jean |
| production |
Johnny Alves , Benjamin Darras |
| music | Nicolas Vitte |
| camera | Matias Boucard |
Pixels is a French partially animated short film directed by Patrick Jean from 2010.
action
A cloud of pixels escapes from an old, discarded television set and pours over New York City . Space Invaders shoot into the street from the air and break up a taxi into numerous pixel blocks, while a Pac-Man eats up various subway entrances. Tetris blocks go down on the New York skyscrapers and make the individual blocks of flats disappear, Arkanoid balls are beaten against the Brooklyn Bridge with independent paddles , so that it is removed brick by brick and finally collapses, while Donkey Kong opens up for further chaos takes care of the streets and Frogger hurries away. As a result of a bomb explosion, the pixels take over power over the entire globe, which becomes a pixel block in space.
production
In Pixels, Patrick Jean refers to numerous 8-bit computer games or slot machine games that he played in his childhood. The film was created as a mixture of real film and computer animation scenes; the shooting of the real scenes took place within two days in New York City. Jean cited films like Roger Rabbit and Ghostbusters as sources of inspiration for Pixels , which was originally planned as a music video.
Pixels was first published on Dailymotion in April 2010 and viewed over a million times within 24 hours; six days after publication, the number of viewers had risen to over 2 million. As a result, Pixels was also shown at numerous short and animation film festivals.
A feature film of the same name , based on the short film, was released in July 2015 .
Awards
Pixels won the Cristal d'Annecy of the Festival d'Animation Annecy for the best short film in 2011 .
Web links
- Pixel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- PIXELS / The short film on Vimeo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lyndy Stout: Searchlight: Patrick Jean . youngdirectoraward.com, September 15, 2010.
- ^ A b Bran Dougherty-Johnson: Pixels Q&A with Patrick Jean . motionographer.com, April 13, 2010.
- ↑ Tomorrow's toon talent: Patrick Jean . variety.com, June 3, 2010.