Destino

Destino (meaning fate ) is an American animated short film. The film was started in 1945 as a collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, abandoned the following year and completed in 1999 under the direction of Dominique Monféry. The world premiere of the film took place in June 2003.

Action

A woman moves into a surreal, desert-like world on a triangular stone monument to which a man and a clock shows - the embodiment of Chronos. In addition to the monument, a white ball is in her mind the woman is large and the triangle disappears in their hands to make a new world space. In their dances the woman and approaches the male stone statue of Kronos for a kiss but it backs away from her. She runs up the tower of Babel and her dress is held by helmet -bearing eyes on the ground, so they naked refuge in a shell, but falls to the ground. The woman jumps out and walks away on oversized telephone receivers.

The woman awoke from her thoughts and looks at the ground. It recognizes close to the triangular monument the shadow of a bell and merges in the desert-like area with the shadow - it becomes the embodiment of the bell, rises and the shadow disappears. Now, wearing a long, bell- like dress and begins freed to dance. The monument of the Kronos crumbling. The woman's head turns into a dandelion and one of the Flugschirmchen encounters the monument, which now comes to life. The man falls to the ground, the clock melts and binds the man at the monument, but which can break loose. From the hand of Kronos crawling ants are transformed into cyclists and take the hand like a mountain. Kronos captures Pusteblumenschirmchen that resembles a dancer. The umbrella flies further and turns to the woman that the man turns to.

She rushes to him, but the ground beneath her ​​begins to decrease as the sands of time and man and woman can not come together. She sends him swallows and turns with other things around them to a face. The man, in turn, is to a baseball player who is fixated on the ball near the monument. The ball is. Turtles by the merger of two similar figures to a ballerina who solves her head and zuspielt it to him as a ball The man beats the ball away, which becomes an oversized heart, which in turn is taken from the stone man and disappears in his hands. What remains is a monument with a hole through which the bell is visible, the ship while blowing dandelion - Flugschirmchen.

Production

The storyboard of Destino originated from the end of 1945 by John Hench, who was working at the time for Disney, and Salvador Dalí. Walt Disney was closely involved as a producer on the making of the film and participated in meetings of Hench and Dalí, which dealt with the development of the film. Some of his ideas were incorporated into the storyboard of the film, however, are not found in the finished film again. The collaboration with Dalí, was friends with the Disney, also was part of a new strategy of the Disney studios, including Walt Disney in 1946 stated in an interview: " As with the one- night - on - the - bare -Mountain sequence in Fantasia that created Kay Nielson, I will offer this possibility [ of cooperation ] and other great artists. We need them. We must continue to pursue new paths. "

The plan, the film was part of a compilation in the style of The Three Caballeros. After eight months of work on the film, the project was interrupted. One reason for that included economic problems of the Walt Disney Studios after the end of World War II. Hench made ​​a short animated sequence of the film at around 15 seconds in length, hoping to raise as Walt Disney's interest in the movie again. However, Walt Disney abandoned the project due to financial reasons, especially since compilation movies were gone out of fashion, even if he regretted his decision later. Since that time, the film was considered " the monster of Loch Ness, a legend -like film that no one will ever see ."

In the course of working on Fantasia 2000, Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, attentive to the failed project, which is mentioned in the film Fantasia 2000 by Bette Midler. Disney planned to use screenshots from the movie for promotion of Fantasia 2000, but were researching that the Disney studios had indeed materials of the film in their possession, they them but not included: The contract between Dalí and Disney stipulated that the Dalí's drawings after the completion of the film property of Disney Studios would be. Roy E. Disney, therefore, awarded to the Disney Studios France the order to finish the film. As a director, it acted the animator Dominique Monfery whose directorial debut it was. The team consisted of 25 animators.

Although the portfolio was stolen years ago, but there was by over 100 pen and ink drawings and 15 paintings of Dalí to the film, the storyboard and the 15 - second clip of John Hench. Gala Dalí left behind diaries and John Hench even helped with the decryption of the often incomprehensible storyboards. Nevertheless, several scenes made ​​no sense - Dali himself had said the film design, "If you understand that, I've failed. " - So that the film was cut at the end of eight pure five minutes of animation. The focus was placed on the love story between the woman and Cronus, during the long and indecipherable scenes of the baseball player were taken only in a few parts in the movie.

The film was to a large extent in traditional cel animation. About 20 percent of the film were animated at your computer using the visualization program Maya and CAPS, including the Tower of Babel, the animation of the bell and the sinking sands of time. Even the few seconds of the original piece from 1946 is included in the film: It is the scene of the two turtles -like creature with Dali -like heads collide to form the outline of a ballerina.

Destino experienced on 2 June 2003 at the Festival d' Animation Annecy in France and its premiere was on 19 December 2003 in the cinemas. The cost of the film amounted to approximately $ 1,500,000.

The plot is from the song Destino, sung by Dora Luz and written by Armando Dominguez (music) and Ray Gilbert ( text ), underlaid. The original recording was thereby re-edited.

Awards

On the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Rhode Iceland International Film Festival, the film has ever won a Grand Prize.

Destino was nominated in 2004 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Harvie Krumpet itself. In addition, the film was nominated for an Annie Award.