Screen play

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Movie
Original title Screen play
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 11 minutes
Rod
Director Barry Purves
script Barry Purves
production Glenn Holberton
for Bare Board Film
Channel Four
music Nigel Hess
camera Mark Stewart
cut Flix Film Editing

Screen Play is a British animated short film directed by Barry Purves in 1992. It was realized as a puppet animation in stop motion . The narrator of the film is Michael Maloney .

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The narrator presents a Japanese play about the young Takao who is about to marry a samurai . She falls in love with the gardener Naioki and they spend a night of love together. The housemaid Takakos catches them both and the father Takakos has Naioki arrested. He escapes and both lovers flee to an island shortly before Takako's forced marriage. Here they live happily together.

The narrator, who was also the father and housemaid in the play by changing his masks, takes off his narrator's mask and is now an old man. He reports that the happy ending story of Takako and Naioki is almost as old as himself. Suddenly warriors appear and kill the narrator and Naioki. Takako takes his own life at the side of her dead lover.

The camera moves back and shows the director's workplace and his animation area including camera.

Awards

Screen Play received the Media Prize for Best Object Animation at the 1992 Ottawa International Animation Festival . Barry Purves received the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film in 1993 and the Bronze Dragon at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy in 1992 .

Screen Play was nominated in 1993 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase .

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