Love Letters from Everest (2019)
- Directed by
- Celeste Koon
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 8 min
- 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 short animated documentary based on love letters between the filmmaker's grandparents. The letters were written during the grandfather's 1956 research expedition to Mount Everest.
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What happens
Love Letters from Everest is a Canadian short animated documentary film, directed by Celeste Koon and released in 2019. The film centres on the love letters written between Koon's grandparents, Fritz Müller and Barbara Battle, during Müller's 1956 research expedition to Mount Everest. The roles of her grandparents are voiced by Jakob Josten and Laura Meadows. The film premiered at the Doc NYC festival in October 2019, and had its Canadian premiere in February 2020 on CBC Gem. The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for Best Web Program or Series, Non-Fiction and Best Direction in a Web Program or Series (Koon). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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