The Making of Longbird

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Movie
Original title The Making of Longbird
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Russian
Publishing year 2011
length 15 minutes
Rod
Director Will Anderson
script Will Anderson
Ainslie Henderson
Vitali Sichinava
production Donald Holwill
music Atzi Muramatsu
camera Will Anderson
cut Will Anderson
occupation
  • Will Anderson: Will Anderson
  • Tobias Feltus: Vladislav Aleksandravich Feltov
  • Vitali Sichinava: Longbird (voice)

The Making of Longbird is a 2011 British partially animated short film directed by Will Anderson .

action

The Russian cartoon pioneer Vladislav Aleksandravich Feltov once created the legendary character of the Long Bird , an extra-long bird that lived through situations in black and white with normal-sized birds. Much of Feltov's work, including most of Longbird's recordings, burned in a fire. Will Anderson now wants to rediscover Feltov and continue the story of Longbird with modern technology, even if he wants to use cut-out animation like Feltov once did. The company turns out to be difficult because Longbird, once brought to life or animated, reacts extremely surly. With a strong Russian accent, he makes it clear to Anderson that he is nothing, has no idea of ​​Russian culture and cannot even produce a script. When Longbird still sneered at Anderson's way of working after 37 minutes, the director cuts him with scissors. Longbird loudly complains that Feltov never treated him like that.

The days go by with different character variations, working on the script, and trying to control Longbird's behavior according to the script, which turns out to be impossible. If Longbird is in marked traffic, he refuses to cross the street until he is run over by an animated car and his paper exterior crumples. Anderson keeps leaving the animation studio, leaving the bird behind, which begins to sing in the silence. However, the director does not give up and tries numerous fashion variations to make the black, long longbird look more attractive. The bird always replies that the attempts are not funny. A video of Longbirds on an Internet platform confirms the bird's suspicion - the video is hardly viewed, but receives scathing comments. Anderson has enough and he leaves. He leaves the calling Longbird in the studio alone with a smoldering cigarette. As it is written in the script next to it, the cigarette burns down and causes a fire that also kills the questioning and calling bird.

production

The Making of Longbird was made as Anderson's graduation film at Edinburgh College of Art , which produced the film. It is a mix of animation and real film sequences in the style of a mockumentary . The film was shown for the first time in September 2011 at the World Festival of Animated Film in Varna , Bulgaria , and at the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland.

Awards

The Making of Longbird was awarded the Grand Prix for Best Short Film at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2011. In the same year he won the Audience Award and the Golden Dove in the Animated Film / Video category at the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.

The Making of Longbird received the award for the best graduation film at the Festival d'Animation Annecy in 2012. It won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Animation in 2012 and also received the Audience Award and the Award for Best British Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 .

The Making of Longbrid won in 2013 the British Academy Film Awards in the category Best Animated Short Film .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amid Amidi: BAFTA-Winning “The Making of Longbird” Is Now Online . cartoonbrew.com, July 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ The Making of Longbird at shortoftheweek.com.
  3. ↑ See performance dates of the film