Who needs Eve? “Adam and the Dog”
Minkyu Lee’s directorial debut, “Adam and the Dog,” is one man’s visually stunning take on how man and dog first bonded.
It won the 2012 Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject. It’s one of five Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Short Film, and a strong contender, according to some reports.
Betsey Sharkey, of the Los Angeles Times, called it a “painterly” film that “puts you in a musing museum state of mind. Lee captures the unfettered joy of discovery and how that feeling changes and expands when you’re no longer alone.”
The Washington Post called it a “visually masterful … film that perhaps should be considered the front-runner for an Oscar later this month …”
Lee worked on Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” and ”Wreck-It Ralph,” but this is his first own film. The 27-year-old director put up $25,000 and spent two years creating the hand-animated 15-minute film.
Posted by jwoestendiek February 12th, 2013 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: academy award, adam and the dog, animals, annie award, bond, director, dogs, film, garden of eden, humans, man meets dog, minkyu lee, nominated, oscar, painterly, pets, short
Comment from vida
Time February 12, 2013 at 7:21 pm
Visually great, and lovely film for the first few moments. Why do I get the feeling that the totally creepy lack of empathy of Adam toward a loving dog was the original sin? Seems possible, humans are like that.