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Bead Game
19775 min 35 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Ishu Patel
Production: Derek Lamb
In this fascinating, innovative exercise in animation, thousands of beads are arranged and manipulated, assuming shapes of creatures both mythical and real. They continually devour, merge, and absorb one another in explosions of colour. The theme is one of aggression and inevitability, but any conclusion is left to the viewer. Sound film without words.
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Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace > Allegories of War and Peace
Credits
- director
- Ishu Patel
- animation
- Ishu Patel
- executive producer
- Derek Lamb
- music
- J.P. Ghosh
Awards
- Third PrizeInternational Film Festival
- Award of ExcellenceFilm Advisory Board Incorporated
- Best of CategoryP.A.C.T. Film Festival
- Best Short Fictional FilmBAFTA / British Academy Film Awards
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Visual EssaysItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Certificate for outstanding achievementGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
- Bronze Plaque - Category: Art and Culture International Film and Video Festival
- Gold Medal - Special Jury AwardInternational Film Festival
- Prize with a cash award of $100USHumboldt International Film Festival
- Second PrizeKenyon Film Festival
- Special Prize for Animation - with a cash award of 3,000 Marks GDRInternational Festival for Documentary and Animated Film