More (1998 film)

More is an American animated short film by Mark Osborne from the year 1998.

Action

A man lives alone in a gray, dreary world. During the day he works as an engineer on the assembly line and is under the eyes of strict bosses Get Happy little machines, and aims to make the dreary everyday life of the people happy, in the evening he is working on an invention. His drive is bathed in warm colors reminder of the carefree childhood, in which he drove with other children carousel. The memory lives and burns in him and the warm light beam passes from his body to the outside when he opens a door on his belly. The fingers catch on the color for a short time, if he keeps them in the light beam and so he has an idea. He has developed a pair of glasses that he wets the color of the beam. When he puts on his glasses, the world turns around him in the most beautiful colors.

The glasses will soon be mass-produced and the man gets himself to the boss who treated equally tyrannical his staff how he was treated earlier. He always carries his own glasses. One day he sits in his office and takes off his glasses. He opens the abdominal flap and the light is extinguished. The scene of the moving carousel in children is now as dull as his life before.

Production

More came within nine months in clay animation in stop motion. The film was shot in IMAX big screen method and was the first stop-motion movie in IMAX. Parallel to this was a 35mm version for film festivals. More was shown in IMAX for the first time in 1998 and lived in January 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of his festival.

The title with which the act is accompanied, is Elegia by New Order.

Awards

At the Sundance Film Festival 1999 More won the Short Filmmaking Award. In the USA Film Festival Osborne received the Grand Prize; the film also won first place in the category "Animation".

More was in 1999 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " nomination, but could not prevail against Bunny himself. In addition, the 1999 film was nominated for an Annie Award.

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