CG Animated short film on a broken relationship | The Spine - by Chris Landreth

Uses a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic to look at the ways individuals evolve, adapt and break.

"In this animated short, Oscar® winner Chris Landreth returns with a poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years of marriage. The Spine continues Landreth's pursuit of a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic, using digital imagery to create characters whose physical appearances are metaphors for their unique souls." (National Film Board of Canada)

This animated short film short has been sleected at numerous festivals including:

-Dresden Film Festival, Germany, 2010
-Genie Awards, Canada, 2010
-Santa Barbara International Film Festival, USA, 2010
-Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2010
-Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia, 2009
-Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France, 2009
-Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada, 2009

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Original title - The Spine
Director - Chris Landreth
Writer - Chris Landreth
Producers - Steven Hoban, Marcy Page, Lisa Bechard, John Mariella
Animation - Dianna Basso, Ken Collins, Morgan DeLange, Biagio Figliuzzi, Andrew Gregoire, Ryan Harvey, Christina Kelbert, Rundeep Khaira, Angelo Libutti, Augusto Quijano, Derek Sunderland, Lucas Wright
Editing - Yonah Lewis, Jeremy Montgomery
Sound editing - Pierre Yves Drapeau, Normand Roger
Soundtrack- Kirk Elliott
Voices - Gordon Pinsent, Alberta Watson, Patrice Goodman, Robert McCarrol
Year - 2009

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