The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer (2014)
- Directed by
- Randall Okita
- Genre
- animation
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 4.2 of 10 from 4 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
Two brothers deal with childhood trauma in opposite ways. One tries to control his future through prediction and caution. The other fights his past with aggression. Their inner lives are shown through animated silhouettes and abstract shapes.
melancholicdreamliketensevisually abstractintrospectiveemotionally chargedpoeticbittersweet
What happens
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer is a 2014 Canadian short film directed by Randall Okita. Mixing live action with animation, the film depicts two brothers whose shared childhood traumas have led them in very different directions as adults: one, the "weatherman", has become a cautious, careful man who tries to protect himself by obsessively predicting the future, while the other, the "shadowboxer", has become an aggressive, violent man who is constantly fighting the past. The film was acted live, but the actors were then replaced with animated silhouettes depicting their inner emotional lives with abstract shapes and images. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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