Shannon Amen (2019)
- Directed by
- Chris Dainty
- Genre
- animation, documentary, drama
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 15 min
- Rated
- 18A
- Rating
- 4.8 of 10 from 5 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
This animated short is a tribute to a friend who died by suicide. It blends her painting style with ice animation to portray her struggle between her faith and her identity.
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What happens
Shannon Amen is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Chris Dainty and released in 2019. Created as a tribute to his childhood friend and former creative partner Shannon Jamieson who committed suicide in 2006 after being unable to reconcile her Christian faith with her lesbian identity, the film blends traditional two-dimensional animation, done in Jamieson's style of painting, with Dainty's own technique of "icemation", which blends stop motion and puppetry to animate human figures and objects carved in ice. The film premiered on September 26, 2019, at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. In 2020, the film was selected by the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to be featured in We Are One: A Global Film Festival. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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