How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels (1996)
- Original title
- Como as Asas Estão Ligadas às Costas dos Anjos
- Directed by
- Craig Welch
- Genre
- animated short film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An animated short that explores themes of death and desire. It uses a surreal style influenced by a famous painting.
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What happens
How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels is a 1996 animated short by Canadian animator Craig Welch, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). While Welch's first film with the NFB, 1992's No Problem, was influenced by the comic style of NFB animators Cordell Barker and Richard Condie, How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels marked a distinct change in artistic direction, exploring such darker themes as death and desire, in a style that has been called "surrealistic." Welch has stated that one of the original influences for the film was Arnold Böcklin's painting Isle of the Dead as well as Norman McLaren's 1946 NFB animated short A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting, which incorporates the Böcklin work. The film received commercial distribution in Canada as the opening film to screenings of David Cronenberg's film Crash. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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