The Lost Thing
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Lost Thing |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 16 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Shaun Tan , Andrew Ruhemann |
| script | Shaun Tan |
| production | Sophie Byrne |
| music | Michael Yezerski |
| cut | Leo Baker |
The Lost Thing is a 2010 Australian animated short film directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann .
action
A place sometime in the future: One day a boy is walking along the beach again looking for bottle caps for his bottle cap collection. On the beach he finds something larger than a man: it's red, has a metal body like a coffee pot with a kind of lid, tentacles on which it moves, and two claw hands with bells hanging on them. A fan circles inside .
The boy makes friends with the thing that seems lost, plays ball with him and builds sandcastles . In the evening, however, it becomes clear that the thing does not belong to anyone. The boy searches in vain for an owner and in the end takes it home to his parents, who are not very enthusiastic. So he finally puts the thing down in his workshop.
When he saw an advertisement by the Federal Department of Odds & Ends on television calling for apparently lost or atypical items to be brought to them, he made his way to the institute's headquarters the next day with the thing. In the dark and inhospitable building, he is first asked to fill out numerous forms, but receives a card with an arrow on it from a small cleaning person: If the thing is really close to his heart, he shouldn't leave it behind in the department because it will be forgotten. The boy and the thing follow the arrows that look like the one on the map and finally come to a small side street that ends at a locked door. After an examination, the boy and the thing are let in and are suddenly faced with a paradise-like landscape populated by similar things , in which each thing lives in harmony with the other and each can live out its individuality. The boy leaves that thing behind.
Later he admits that he no longer thinks about the thing as often and that he discovering fewer and fewer things that seem like lost in his life - perhaps because they no longer exist, but perhaps also because he has less time in his life has to pay attention to it.
production
The Lost Thing is based on the book of the same name by Shaun Tan from 1999. Initially, Tan reacted skeptically to the 2001 proposal by Ruhemann and producer Byrne to film the book, as he had previously worked with another production company about the filming of one of his Talked about books that ultimately never got realized.
The film was made after several years of preparation under the co-direction of Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan. Actual production began in 2007 and ended in April 2010. 76 characters were computer-animated in the film; the film team consisted of four people. The project was financially supported by Passion Pictures UK and Screen Australia.
The plot sticks closely to the book and takes over most of the film's dialogue literally. The narrator of the film is Tim Minchin .
The Lost Thing had its world premiere on June 3, 2010 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy . The Australian premiere took place in the same month at the Sydney Film Festival . The film was released on DVD in late 2010.
Awards
The Lost Thing was in 2011 with the Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film Award".
On the Annecy International Animated Film Festival was The Lost Thing the Cristal d'Annecy best short film. He received the Yoram Gross Animation Award at the Sydney Film Festival . In 2011 he received the SWR Audience Award at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival .
The film received an ASSG Award from the Australian Screen Sound Guild in 2010 for best sound in an animated short film.
Web links
- Official website for the film
- The Lost Thing on shauntan.net
- The Lost Thing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Lost Thing on bcdb.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne Richey: The Lost Thing: Shaun Tan found by producer Sophie Byrne . June 2, 2010. ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2010 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.
- ↑ See Lilian Darmono: The Lost Thing. Interview with Shaun Tan .
- ↑ See shauntan.net
- ↑ 18th Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart
