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Icarus
19747 min 42 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Paul Bochner
Production: Wolf Koenig
The Greek myth retold with film animation, accompanied by music for flute. Music, drawing, colour and movement here follow a moving, classic restraint. Daedalus, inventor of many things, provides the wings to escape from Crete, but Icarus, his son, impetuously flies too close to the sun. In this film, artist and composer share equal pleasure in the telling, with a feeling the audience will share. A film without words.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on LiteratureLegends, Myths, and Tales
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Animation on Life and DeathMythology
Credits
- director
- Paul Bochner
- producer
- Wolf Koenig
- camera
- Jacques Avoine
- Raymond Dumas
- Cameron Gaul
- sound
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
Awards
- Third Prize given by the Inernational Jury of Animation FilmsInternational Short Film Festival