The End (short film)

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Movie
Original title the end
Country of production USA
Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Chris Landreth
script Chris Landreth
production Robin Bargar
Chris Landreth
for Alias ​​/ Wavefront Technologies

The End is a 1995 Canadian-American computer-animated short film directed by Chris Landreth .

action

In a confused sound and image collage with speaking mouths and two wired beings uttering pseudo-philosophical sentences, a speaker suddenly cuts in. It is the animator of the film himself who communicates with the two characters in his film. The man wants to know why his head is wired and the animator explains what thoughts he wanted to express with it. The animator justifies other confused aspects of the film with the fact that he wants to get the audience to discuss and interpret. The animated woman explains to him that she does not believe that she was only invented by him, but that she is conscious. She reproaches him for having created him on the contrary.

Your last sentence will appear on the animator's storyboard . He is sitting in his studio and telephoning his client. He doesn't know how to end the film and suggests different scenarios: At the hammer ending, both characters are killed by hammers labeled The State and Mass Media , at the love ending both characters melt into hearts. The client advises the animator to act as the end himself, since he can also change himself through animation. During the phone call, the animator quickly becomes a black man and a young woman. The animator realizes that he himself is the result of his own fiction and can create his own end.

Awards

The End received the WAC Award for Best Computer Animated Film at the 1997 World Animation Celebration .

The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ” in 1996, but could not prevail against Wallace & Gromit - Unter Schafen .

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