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The End of the World in Four Seasons
199512 min 57 secFilm: Animation, Experimental
Direction: Paul Driessen
Production: Marcy PageBarrie McLean
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with La Sept-Arte.
Cartoon conventions are toyed with in eight interlocking stories which unfold simultaneously in eight windows on the screen, forever putting to rest such ideas as beginnings, middles and ends. Events are divided into seasonal chapters to the accompaniment of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Film without words.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > Seasons
- Animals > Stories
Credits
- director
- Paul Driessen
- animation
- Paul Driessen
- producer
- Marcy Page
- executive producer
- Barrie McLean
- computer imagery
- Marie Renaud
- sound
- Normand Roger
Awards
- Special Jury AwardAnim Expo
- First Prize (Grand Prix des Amériques) - Best Short Film SectionMontreal World Film Festival
- Special Award - Category: Music / Sound (Normand Roger)International Animation Festival
- Award for Best Production - Category: B (between 10 and 30 minutes)International Animation Festival
- Second Place Award - Category: Animated works longer than 5 shorter than 15 minutesLos Angeles Animation Competition / World Animation Celebration (Wacfest)
- Award given to Best Short / Medium length film given by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinémaRendez-vous Québec Cinéma
- FIPRESCI Award - International Film Critics'International Animated Film Festival
- Silver Spike Award - Category: Short FilmInternational Film Festival
- Animated Film Award - with a cash prize of 10,000FFInternational Environment Film Festival / FIFE
- Animation Prize - with a cash prize of 300,000PTEInternational Short Film Festival
- Critique Internationale AwardInternational Film Festival