Missed Connection
In this animated short, a delusional young man spots the girl of his dreams in his favourite café and weaves a self-indulgent fantasy story of their imagined life together. Missed Connection examines our universal desire to connect in a world of beautiful strangers.
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Missed Connection is an animated short that I completed last June for the NFB through Hothouse 7, a fabulous program for emerging filmmakers. The theme this year was "Here Be Dragons", a reference to the serpent-like creatures that were used to chart unknown territory on ancient maps. Each of the six participants had to address the theme in their own way and I chose to... well, you'll see!
The film was animated completely in Flash on my Cintiq and utilized software like Skype and Cozimo to communicate with the Montreal Studio on a daily basis, enabling all the Hothousers to remain at home for the majority of the production. In previous years all six filmmakers would move to Montreal for the duration of the project but this time the virtual studio environment was also part of the experiment. We met up in person at the beginning, then continued to build our alliances online. When it was time to return to Montreal for the Online Edit and Final Mix it felt like a reunion of great friends. And everyone was in 3-D!
Want to read more about it? Here are a few links:
Be sure to check out all the other films
in the Hothouse 7 Playlist!
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