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Come Again in Spring
Description
Old Hark is a creature of habit. He enjoys living in his weather-beaten house set down amidst the meadows. He has wood to chop, chores to do and time to reflect on a long life. His greatest joy is feeding the birds that have wintered over and have come to depend on him.
One day, a black-robed spectre materializes out of the fields, brandishing the Book of Time. But it's too soon! An exchange follows that has the old man reach deep into his memory. Does he have the strength to find the answers he needs to see the birds into spring?
Come Again in Spring is a gentle tale about mortality that works in subliminal ways. Can we negotiate our time on earth? How does each one of us reconcile our mortal fate? A lyrical look, exquisitely animated, at a reality as old as humanity, as young as today. Come Again in Spring is adapted from a story by Richard Kennedy by permission of the author.
2007, 11 min 50 s
Also available in French
Credits
- Director
- Belinda Oldford
- Designer
- Belinda Oldford
- Animator
- Belinda Oldford
- Music
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Sound design
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Voice
- Jack Duffy
- David Hemblen
- Editing
- Pierre Plouffe
- Technical director
- Pierre Plouffe
- Digital imaging
- Pierre Plouffe
- Project inspiration
- Ishu Patel
- Additional animation
- Georgine Strathy
- Sylvain Lavoie
- Jodi Schuster
- Additional editing
- Benoît Chagnon
- Backgrounds
- Belinda Oldford
- Colouring
- Belinda Oldford
- Digital imaging
- Peter Kronowetter
- Benoît Chagnon
- Louis-André Fortin
- Jo Meuris
- David Anderson
- Daniel Aronson
- Jean Chang
- Stanley Chang
- Qin Leng
- Jason Smalridge
- Jasmine Yee
- Special visual effects
- Peter Kronowetter
- Benoît Chagnon
- Louis-André Fortin
- Jo Meuris
- David Anderson
- Daniel Aronson
- Jean Chang
- Stanley Chang
- Qin Leng
- Jason Smalridge
- Jasmine Yee
- Digital image consultation
- Jean-Marc Brosseau
- Susan Gourley
- Pierre Landry
- Track reading
- Luigi Allemano
- Foley
- Monique Vézina
- Foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Sylvain Cajelais
- Music recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Sylvain Cajelais
- Musician
- Michael Brown
- Dave Gossage
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- Shelley Craig
- Script consultant
- Ted Potochniak
- On-line editing
- David Oxilia
- Technical coordination
- Julie Laperrière
- Richard Lesage
- Jelena Popovic
- Marketing
- Mia Desroches
- Hélène Tanguay
- Melissa Wheeler
- Administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Production coordination
- Elaine Largie
- Executive producer
- David Verrall
- Producer
- Marcy Page