Country: Spain
Year: 2007
Duration: 24'
Frank and Ava are a married couple who live in the country. He is
a logger and she works in a store. Their tranquillity is shaken when,
at a rodeo, Ava falls in love with one of the participants. When their
love affair is discovered by Frank, it leads to a tragic end. The story
calls to mind the love triangle involving the famous torero Luis Miguel
Dominguín and two Hollywood stars, Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra.
“The movie is an animated chain of linked stories, driven by human
dreams and fantasies, romance and machismo. The film begins with
Chainsaw: Working Safe #17, a fictional 80s-style instructional film
about the safe use of chainsaws. Some stories are real, quoted directly
from news reports, some are 1950s newsreels, some are fictional,
though based on fact. Then there are the animal stories: these animals
are part of the human world, but they also inhabit a parallel world
without human feelings, sentimentality, or romanticism – the natural
world that endures.”
Biography
film director
Dennis Tupicoff
Dennis Tupicoff (Ipswich, Australia, 1951), after graduating from Queensland University, worked as an archivist and teacher before making his first animated film. He then moved to Melbourne and completed the Swinburne Film and TV School animation course. After working as writer, director and producer of his own films as well as TV commercials, from 1992 to 1994 he was appointed Lecturer in Animation at the VCA
School of Television. Since then he has continued making independent films as
writer, director, producer. These have been both fictional and documentary, animated and live-action, comedy and drama – and sometimes inventive combinations of various categories.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dance of Death (cm, anim., 1983), The Bear (cm, 1989), The Darra Dogs (cm, anim., 1993), His Mother’s Voice (cm, anim., 1997), The Heat, the Humidity (cm, anim., 1999), Into the Dark (cm, anim., 2000-2001), Taringa 4068 - Our Place and Time (doc., 2002), Chainsaw (cm, anim., 2007), Silly & Serious: William Robinson and Self Portraits (doc, 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Dennis Tupicoff
fotografia, montaggio/cinematography, film editor Zbigniew Friedrich
costumi/costume design Adele Flere
musica/music David Tait
suono/sound Craig Carter
animazione/animation John Skibinski
interpreti/cast
Luke Elliot, Anni Davey, Adam Pierzchalski
voci/voices
David Cameron, Nina Landis, Luke Elliot
produttori/producers Fiona Cochrane, Dennis Tupicoff
produzione/production Jungle Pictures Pty Ltd
coproduttori/coproducers Stephen Wallace, Carole Sklan
coproduzione/coproduction Australian Film Commission, SBS-Independent
fotografia, montaggio/cinematography, film editor Zbigniew Friedrich
costumi/costume design Adele Flere
musica/music David Tait
suono/sound Craig Carter
animazione/animation John Skibinski
interpreti/cast
Luke Elliot, Anni Davey, Adam Pierzchalski
voci/voices
David Cameron, Nina Landis, Luke Elliot
produttori/producers Fiona Cochrane, Dennis Tupicoff
produzione/production Jungle Pictures Pty Ltd
coproduttori/coproducers Stephen Wallace, Carole Sklan
coproduzione/coproduction Australian Film Commission, SBS-Independent