The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg

Collaborators : Driessen, Paul | Page, Marcy | Verrall, David | Office national du film du Canada
Fantasy -- Fiction -- Animated films.Children and Youth -- Children's Stories.Children and Youth -- Youthful Perspectives.

A playful and poignant animated short about a boy with an over-active imagination, The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg presents two worlds -reality and fantasy. Paul Driessen's multi-layered split-screen approach revels in the shifting boundaries between these two realms. In this cautionary tale, the young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when our would-be hero, accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, he can't believe his eyes. It's even harder for him to convince anyone else of what he's seen - an iceberg! Suddenly, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape, is what he wishes to recapture. Film without words.

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Resource Type : Émission et filmFormats : 1 streaming video (8 min., 49 sec.)Collection : Mind GamesYear of publication : ©2000

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