NFB Collection
Don't Blink
20031 min 4 secFilm: Experimental, Animation
Direction: Heather Harkins
Production: David VerrallMichael Fukushima
Combining stop-motion puppet and drawn animation, Don't Blink
observes a young woman, somewhat forlorn on a Halifax dock, whose loneliness
is lifted by the passing of an otherworldly fishing trawler. A metaphor on the
connectedness of water, and water's capacity as a medium of freedom.
This
animated short was
made for Hothouse 1, the NFB’s program for emerging filmmakers, whose central
theme was
“Water and Our Relationship to It.”.
Availability
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Subject categories
- Transportation > Boats
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional Life
- Environment and Conservation > Water Resources
Credits
- director
- Heather Harkins
- mentoring director
- Christopher Hinton
- sound
- Lance Neveu
- music
- Lance Neveu
- production collaborator
- Richard Lesage
- Phyllis Lewis
- digital imaging team
- Jean-Marc Brosseau
- Susan Gourley
- Ines Hardtke
- Pierre Plouffe
- post-production
- Shelley Craig
- Denis Gathelier
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Elaine Largie
- Renée Major
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- producer
- Michael Fukushima