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How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels
199611 min 5 secFilm: Experimental, Animation
Direction: Craig Welch
Production: Marcy PageBarrie McLean
Script: Craig Welch
In this surreal exposition, we meet a man, obsessed with control. His intricate gadgets manipulate yet insulate, as his science dissects and reduces. How exactly are wings attached to the back of angels? In this invented world drained of emotion, where everything goes through the motions, he is brushed by indefinite longings. Whether he can transcend his obsessions and fears is the heart of the matter. A film without words.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional Life
- Media Education > Film Animation
- English Language Arts > Poetry
- Technology Education > Society and Technology
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- director
- Craig Welch
- script
- Craig Welch
- animation
- Craig Welch
- producer
- Marcy Page
- executive producer
- Barrie McLean
- photography
- Robin L.P. Bain
- Brian Duchscherer
- Susan Trow
- animation camera
- Lynda Pelley
- Pierre Landry
- sound editing
- Normand Roger
- music
- Normand Roger
- cast
- Louise Leroux
Awards
- Special PrizeInternational Animation Festival
- First Place Award - Category: Animation - with a cash prize of 250$USCentral Florida Film & Video Festival
- Best Animated Film AwardIMAGE Film and Video Festival
- Gold Hugo - Category: Animation International Film Festival
- Jury Award - Animation ProgramExpo of Short Film and Video
- Honorable Mention International Film and Video Festival
- Bronze Award (won by the NFB Animation Festival: Short Animated Canadian Series. this package include I'M YOUR MAN and HOW WING ARE ATTACHED TO THE BACKS OF ANGELS).WorldFest - International Film Festival
- International Grand PrizeCartoombria
- Second Prize - with a cash prize of 3000 Swiss FrancsFANTOCHE International Animation Film Festival
- Best Animation Film Award - with a cash prize of 10,000DMFilmfest - International Festival for Animation and Short Films
- Special Diploma - with a cash prize of 1000USDMessage to Man
- Special Recognition - for DesignWorld Festival of Animated Films
- Prize of Sparkasse - with a cash prize of 3,000DMInternational Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
- State of Baden-Württemberg Prize - with a cash prize of 15,000DMInternational Animation Film Festival / International Trickfilm Festival
- Best of International AnimationInternational Film Festival