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Mobile Stories: The Ascent of Man
20082 min 45 secFilm: Experimental, Fiction
Direction: Luke GustafsonDenny Silverthorne
Production: Jonas DiamondKevin O'Keefe (Mobile iThentic Productions Inc.)Lea Marin (National Film Board of Canada)Catherine Tait (Mobile iThentic Productions Inc.)Silva Basmajian (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Jeremy Diamond
A co-production between Mobile iThentic Productions Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of the Telus Innovation Fund, the Bell New Media Fund, and broadcast partner - the Independent Film Channel Canada.
Bruce McCall's May 14, 2007 cover of The New Yorker is about man's obsession with progress and technology. The artwork features an ape on a rock who evolves into a caveman, an Egyptian, a soldier etc. and along with these evolutions come the technologies of each new civilization. However, when man evolves into his current reality, the escalator simply drops him off into nowhere. McCall's original art is animated by Toronto's Smiley Guy Studios.
Subject categories
- Technology > Technology and Society
Credits
- art work
- Bruce McCall
- animation services
- Smiley Guy Studios
- director
- Luke Gustafson
- Denny Silverthorne
- writer
- Jeremy Diamond
- producer
- Jonas Diamond
- Kevin O'Keefe
- Lea Marin
- lead design
- Joel Chahal
- lead animator
- Nathan Carey
- animator
- Rich Duhaney
- Peter Habjan
- Kurtis Scott
- Joel Chahal
- Luke Gustafson
- editor
- Andrew McIntyre
- Denny Silverthorne
- project manager
- Shona Kennedy
- music design
- Paul O'Brien
- sound design
- Paul O'Brien
- special effects
- Bob Yoshioka
- technical support
- David Kennedy
- Brad Sears
- production supervisor
- Mark Wilson
- technical coordinator
- Branden Bratuhin
- production coordinator
- Rechna Varma
- Sarah Arruda
- marketing manager
- Nataly Spudic
- budget officer
- Joanne Forrest
- executive producer
- Catherine Tait
- Silva Basmajian