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

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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