Nocturnes (1988)
- Directed by
- François Aubry
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 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
An animated short that mixes live action and animation. It shows a composer accessing a cosmic source of artistic inspiration while creating a new work.
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What happens
Nocturnes is a Canadian animated short film, directed by François Aubry and released in 1988. Mixing live action with animation, the film imagines the creative process through a depiction of Martin Foster, at the time a violinist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as a composer who is accessing the ultimate cosmic source of all artistic inspiration as he creates a new work. Some sources have attributed British actor Hugh Grant with a role in the film as Frédéric Chopin; however, this may be an erroneous conflation with a different film, as Aubry's film features neither spoken dialogue nor any depiction of Chopin, and does not list Grant in its credits. The film premiered at the 1988 Montreal World Film Festival. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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