Dad's Dead (2002)
- Directed by
- Chris Shepherd
- Genre
- drama, animation
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 7 min
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 17 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
A man remembers his childhood friend Dad. The film mixes live action and animation to show how memory can be unreliable.
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What happens
Dad's Dead is a seven-minute award winning film written and directed by Chris Shepherd, commissioned by animate! and funded by Arts Council England. It was first transmitted on Channel 4 in 2003. Mixing animation with live action, the film deals with how memory works. The film was shot on DV and Betacam SP and edited in Adobe After Effects and Aura. On 27 August 2007, Dad's Dead was released as an extra on the DVD release of Danny Boyle's science fiction film Sunshine. A new remastered HD version of the film was released for the first time in January 2011. The film received a sequel in 2016, Johnno's Dead. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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