Ryan (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ryan |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 14 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Chris Landreth |
| production |
Steven Hoban Mark Smith Marcy Page |
| music |
Fergus Marsh Michael White |
| cut | Alan Code |
Ryan is a Canadian computer animation film from the year 2004 . The fourteen-minute documentary drama directed by Chris Landreth tells of the social decline of the cartoonist Ryan Larkin . The multi-award-winning film was produced by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada .
action
The animated filmmaker Chris Landreth, around forty, conducts an interview with Ryan Larkin in a world in which people's weaknesses are shown through colorful features or the bizarre disappearance of body parts. He attracted attention in the 1960s and 1970s with his unusual short animated films and was even nominated for an Oscar for one of his works, En marchant . Larkin became addicted to drugs and alcohol over time, until, lost in his artistic inspiration, he eventually begged on the street for a living.
reception
The film premiered on May 17, 2004 in the short film competition of the Cannes International Film Festival and subsequently at several other festivals, including the Valladolid International Film Festival .
Almost without exception all critics received the film positively. The renowned American film critic Roger Ebert , for example, wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 25, 2005 , that the film would cut deep into the truth of human life. The animation technique is dramatic, impressive and original. The director Landreth said of the 3D animated world he shows in the film that it reflects a kind of psychological realism.
Awards
Ryan won the Kodak Short Film Award, the Canal + Award and the Young Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The film received a special mention at the AFI Fest 2004 and the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the Atlantic Film Festival . He was also at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival , the Leipzig DOK Festival , the Melbourne International Animation Festival , the Newport International Film Festival , the Ottawa International Animation Festival , the San Francisco International Film Festival , the Sundance Film Festival , the Tampere International Short Film Festival , Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival , Uppsala International Short Film Festival , Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival, and Valladolid International Film Festival.
At the 2005 Academy Awards , the film won the Best Animated Short Film category, beating Bill Plympton's Guard Dog , among others . The Annie Awards 2005 the film was as best animated short film nominated for the Genie Awards in 2005 he won in the same category . As part of the annual Ars Electronica Festival in Linz , the short film was awarded the 2004 Golden Nica - an important award in the field of electronic art and culture - in the Computer Animation / Visual Effects category.
Web links
- Ryan at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ryan on YouTube