When the day breaks
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | When the day breaks |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Amanda Forbis , Wendy Tilby |
| script | Wendy Tilby |
| production |
David Verrall for the National Film Board of Canada |
| music | Judith Gruber-Stitzer |
When the Day Breaks is a 1999 Canadian animated short film directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby .
action
The day begins. A rooster goes shopping after breakfast. Pig lady Ruby notices while peeling the potatoes that she has no more milk at home and goes shopping too. At the door of the grocery store she bumps into the tap and a lemon falls from his shopping bag into the sewer . In the shop, Ruby finally hears the sound of a car accident - the run-over, dead rooster is removed when Ruby comes out of the shop.
Back at home, Ruby quietly pulls the blinds down on the gloomy city. The connection to the rest of the city is shown through the plug of the running kettle . The electricity from the socket enables a cow to iron; the electricity from the lamp leads to a rabbit who is on the phone and in whose room other animals are watching TV. A goat shaves while listening to the radio, the sewage leads to the lemon on the tap in the sewer and from there to the dripping tap in the dead tap's apartment. The bitten toast is still lying here. Via the toaster, the connection continues to Ruby's kettle, in which the water is now boiling. Ruby pulls the plug, brews coffee , and eats her breakfast - potato peels in milk. She raises the blinds, it's bright day.
production
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis met in 1985 at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in British Columbia . Both worked for around four years on When the Day Breaks , which was lavishly animated. First, both of them filmed the scenes in Hi8 , copied them to video and printed the individual frames on thermal paper , which was then copied. The individual images were then drawn directly onto the copies with oil paint.
The songs in the film are sung by Martha Wainwright and Chaim Tannenbaum .
Awards
When the Day Breaks has won numerous international awards, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in the “ Best Short Film ” category and the Cristal d'Annecy of the Festival d'Animation Annecy .
When the Day Breaks was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 2000, but could not prevail against The Old Man and the Sea .
Web links
- When the Day Breaks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taylor Jessen: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby - When the Day Breaks / 1999 . In: Mike Judge, Don Hertzfeldt (Ed.): The Animation Show . P. 13.
- ↑ Complete list of awards on onf-nfb.gc.ca