Gloria Victoria

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Gloria Victoria
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Directed by Theodore Ushev
Produced byMarc Bertrand
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  • June 2013 (2013-06)(Annecy)
Running time
6 m 56 sec
CountryCanada

Gloria Victoria is a 2013 3-D anti-war animated short by Theodore Ushev, produced in Montreal by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). A film without words set to the music of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony , Victoria Gloria is final film in a trilogy of NFB animated shorts by Ushev on art, ideology and power, following Tower Bawher (2005) and Drux Flux (2008). [1] [2]

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Style

Gloria Victoria uses mixed media techniques to create images that evoke bloody battlefields and the horrors of war, with imagery of combat and massacres from the bombing of Dresden in World War II to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to Star Wars , in a style inspired by expressionism, constructivism, cubism as well as surrealism. Ushev has stated that the film is "less geometric" in its animation than his previous works and that he sought to flatten the 3-D effect as the film progressed towards its climax, so as to convey the emotion of a human being at war. [1] [3]

The seven-minute film took Ushev two years to create, using traditional animation and computer animation tools. [2]

Release and reception

The film received the FIPRESCI critics prize at the 2013 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2013. Gloria Victoria was screened as part of the Short Cuts Canada program at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. [4] It was named as Most Well Liked Animated Short of 2013 in a survey of fifteen festival programmers and critics, selected by eleven out of fifteen people surveyed.

Accolades

In 2014, Gloria Victoria won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the Yorkton Film Festival. [5] The film also got a nomination at 2014 Hollywood's Annie Awards. [2] [6]

The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dumais, Manon (27 November 2013). "Construire, détruire, reconstruire". Voir (in French). Montreal. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Tremblay, Odile (27 November 2013). "Quand l'art sert le pouvoir". Le Devoir (in French). Montreal. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Gloria Victoria". NFB synopsis. National Film Board of Canada . Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Vlessing, Etan (19 June 2013). "NFB animated shorts win big at Annecy". Playback . Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Canada's Golden Sheaf Award Winners 2014" (PDF). Yorkton Film Festival. Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. ↑ Amidi, Amid. ""Gloria Victoria" Most Well Liked Animated Short of 2013". Cartoon Brew . Retrieved 2013-12-16.
  7. ↑ Pat Mullen, "'Enemy' Leads Canadian Screen Awards Nominations". Cinemablographer, January 13, 2014.
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