The Spine An animated short film by Chris Landreth

For The Spine, director and scriptwriter Chris Landreth joins forces again with producers Steve Hoban (Copperheart Animation), Mark Smith (Copperheart Animation) and Marcy Page (National Film Board of Canada), who had collaborated with him to make Ryan (2004) – Oscar winner for best animated short. Entirely computer animated, The Spine is a bold film whose dazzling artistic style pushes the limits of animated film. The Spine uses uniquely bizarre but strangely believable imagery, to tell the story of an ordinary married couple whose lives are in turn tragic, absurd and beautiful. The Spine was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, with the creative participation of Autodesk Canada CO. and Seneca College School of Communication Arts.

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The Spine wins in Portugal

The Festival Internacional de Cinema de Animação, also known as Cinanima, has just awarded its Grand Prize to The Spine!! Read more

Rendezvous and a Mad Ferret

This was the evening of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival here in Toronto. This was by far the high point of my week. That, and hanging with my Thursday night artist group afterwords to boast and bluster about how I got to show “The Spine” at this festival. The Rendezvous with Madness Film [...] Read more

New York and the Academy

It’s another trip! I’m in New York City this weekend. I came here to vote for the animated short films that will be nominated for the Academy Award next year. This is one of the great perks of being a member of the Academy. Here’s what happens during one of these voting [...] Read more

Get Animated

One hundred and seventeen years ago, an inventor named Charles-Émile Reynaud showed off a strange, circular disk mounted next to two smaller reels which wound a series of small glass plates past a projector lamp.  When each glass plate passed the lamp, it would project a hand-painted image of a trio of clowns onto a screen. [...] Read more

Picture Time

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