Head over Heels (2012 film)

Head Over Heels is a British animated short film by Timothy Reckart from the year of 2012.

Action

The couple Madge and Walter has grown apart over the years. Although they live in a house, but he lives on the ground, while she lives on the ceiling. Can they drop something, it falls to Walter. The refrigerator has two doors and is always grumpy drawn from both up and down, while the wedding photo each claimed for himself and always turns around so that it is upside down for the other. They talk, they have long gone together.

One day Walter wants to watch TV while vacuuming Madge. In this case, an antenna of the television goes off, who wants to fix Walter. In the storeroom, where his tool stores, he finds a pair of well worn ballet shoes, wearing Madge at her wedding. He repaired the shoes affectionately and she wants to give Madge, but she pushes the shoe box unnoticed by yourself. There is a dispute between the couple, the wedding picture is going to break and at the end lands the house that floated so far in the air, unceremoniously on the ground. Here, it has rotated so that Madge is now living on the ground, while Walter is on the ceiling. Madge leaves the house and exploring the area. Walter also wants to go out of the house, but almost pulled out of the house in the sky. It binds tightly to his chair, which only means that he is now like a balloon is hanging upside down in the air on the chair. He falls asleep. Madge returns after some time to the house, where it finds the discarded of her shoe box. She realizes that she still loves Walter, and summarizes a plan. You nailed her numerous pairs of shoes to the ceiling. Walter wakes from industrial noise and returns to the ceiling back into the house. Here, Madge swings in their shoes and is also held on the ceiling. After they have been hesitant offered a hand, Madge and Walter fall into his arms.

Production

Head Over Heels came within 15 months as the closing film stretching Arts during the Master studies at the National Film and Television School in London. He was animated in claymation stop-motion. The film premiered on May 24, 2012, the International Film Festival in Cannes, 2012.

Although the film has no dialogue, give Madge and Walter sounds. Madge was voiced by Rayyah McCaul and Walter by Nigel Anthony.

Awards

Head Over Heels won the 2012 Jury Prize of the Brazilian film festival Anima Mundi. In 2013 he received an Annie Award for " Best Student Film" and the Cartoon d'Or Best European short animated film. Head Over Heels was also nominated in 2013 for Best Animated Short Film for an Oscar in the category.