Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Short Film: Tsunami


Created by Jess Nicholls, Line Bering, Michelle From, Morten Jæger,
Pernille Kofod Hansen, Sofie Nørgaard Kampmark, and Steffen Christensen

"Tsunami"is an animated short film that examines the psychology of loss.  It was made by a team of seven third year Character Animation and CG Arts students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark  as their graduation project, and it is gorgeous.  The idea for the film came from one of the artists’ personal experience, Sofie Kampmark (who directed the short) was visiting Japan in 2011, when the tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami took place.

In the dialog free film, a man named Haru returns to a home destroyed by a tsunami to begin picking up the pieces of his life, only to discover that the ocean has left him a gift.  The story carries a real sense of magic, with a nod to Japanese mythology in a pleasant story reminiscent of Studio Ghibli's films.
"Haru returns home in denial after a tsunami, where he must learn to deal with his loss through an encounter with a magical sea Spirit."

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