Weekends (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Weekends |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 16 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Trevor Jimenez |
| script | Trevor Jimenez |
| production | Jeremy Slome |
| music | Andrew Vernon |
Weekends is an Independent - Animation - short film by Trevor Jimenez from the year 2017. The film was made by a cooperative program of Pixar , for Jimenez as Animator works. The short film is inspired by Jiminez's childhood of divorce , who spent the week with his mother in Hamilton, Ontario and on the weekends with his father in Toronto . The film was shown for the first time on October 18, 2017 at the Warsaw Film Festival , where it was also awarded the Prize for Best Short Film.
The film was nominated for the best animated short film at the 91st Academy Awards.
content
The film is set in Toronto in the 1980s and shows a six or seven year old boy over the course of a year. He spends the week with his single mother and the weekends with his father. There is no speaking in the film. The film alternates fluently between reality and dream sequences, in which the boy processes the aspects of his separated family. He observes how new companions in his parents' life come and (in the case of his mother) go again. While his father cultivated a hedonistic lifestyle with an exuberant collector's urge to collect Japanese samurai ideals, played duck hunt with his son and finally got engaged, his mother struggled with everyday life, trained as an accountant and played melancholy music on the piano.
background
Jimenez spent ten years making the film. 27 animators and artists helped him create the film.
Jiminez shows the brokenness of the family with the help of surreal depictions with a clear artistic claim and through the use of many inserted dream sequences. Andrew Vernon composed music for the dream sequence, otherwise piano music ( Erik Saties Gymnopédies 1 and 2) is played with the mother and Money for Nothing from Dire Straits with the father .
Awards
At the Oscar ceremony in 2019 , the film was as Best Animated Short Film nomination.
It had already received 22 awards and was shown at 66 festivals.
Web links
- Website of the film
- Weekends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Victoria Ahearn: Canadian nominees dominate Oscars' animated short film category. In: The Star. January 22, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Weekends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ a b The Academy Awards 2019. In: oscars.org. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Video featurette about Trevor Jimenez
- ↑ a b c d Jennifer Wolfe: Within a Dream: Bringing Emotion To Trevor Jimenez's 'Weekends'. In: Animation World Network. November 6, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Jennifer Wolfe: WATCH: Trevor Jimenez's Oscar-Shortlisted 'Weekends' Returns Online. In: Animation World Network. December 27, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .