Underplayed Gems

BAM (2015)

BAM poster
Directed by
Howie Shia
Genre
drama, animation
Country
Canada
Runtime
6 min
Rated
12
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A shy young man has a violent temper. The animated short retells the myth of Hercules as he tries to reconcile two sides of his personality.

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What happens

BAM is a 2015 National Film Board of Canada animated short film by Howie Shia about a shy young man with a violent temper who struggles to reconcile the two sides of his personality. It is a retelling of the myth of Hercules and one of the first films created entirely in 4K UltraHD by the NFB. The filmmaker's brothers, hip-hop artist Leo Shia (also known as LEO37) and composer Tim Shia, composed the film's musical score and did the sound editing. Shia says the film was partly inspired by their grandfather, a high-ranking police official in Taiwan who was also a calligrapher and poet, "coming from a tradition of learned gentleman who also partook in violence one way or another". BAM was produced for the NFB by Maral Mohammadian and Michael Fukushima. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Animated Short at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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