NFB Collection
Batmilk
20091 min 44 secFilm: Animation, Fiction
Direction: Brandon Blommaert
Production: David VerrallMichael Fukushima
Script: Brandon Blommaert
Amidst a magical journey, an oafish ghoul and his soft exposed brain are met
with ruin when the brain is unexpectedly killed. Though paralyzed, the ghoul
attains a fresh brain and is fed with new life. An unassuming yet unsettling
story of death and rebirth.
This animated short was made for Hothouse 5, the NFB’s program for emerging
filmmakers, whose central theme was “The Time I Changed My Mind”.
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Subject categories
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Animation on Life and DeathLife and Death
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Aging/Death and Dying
- Media Education > Film Animation
- Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development
Credits
- writer
- Brandon Blommaert
- director
- Brandon Blommaert
- mentoring director
- Alison Reiko Loader
- Janet Perlman
- Steve Woloshen
- music
- Luigi Allemano
- sound design
- Luigi Allemano
- editor
- Jelena Popovic
- infographics
- Susan Gourley
- Louis-André Fortin
- musician
- Mariane Croteau
- foley artist
- Karla Baumgardner
- sound recorder
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- mix
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- technical coordinator
- Julie Laperrière
- online editor
- Yannick Carrier
- marketing
- Mia Desroches
- Patrick Viegas
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Rosalina Di Sario
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- producer
- Michael Fukushima
- associate producer
- Maral Mohammadian