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No man is an island, wrote British poet John Donne in 1624, little thinking that his timeless meditation would resonate so strongly three centuries later in the cold, distant Arctic.
It was during a voyage in the Far North aboard the sailing ship SEDNA IV that Nicolas Brault, working on a computer graphic tablet, created Islet, his ode to the Arctic and its inhabitants. Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into balloons. It is a black and white evocation of the real world, transformed by the director's special sense of whimsy.
With bold lines reminiscent of the stark simplicity of Inuit art, this cautionary tale is a reminder of the interconnectedness of all things. We are all affected by the fate of the Arctic, which each year is disappearing a little farther into the ocean.
2003, 07 min 01 s
Awards
Award - Category: Animation
International Digital Festival (VIDFEST)
May 8 to June 25 2004, Vancouver - Canada
2nd FEDEX Award for the most popular short film
Montreal World Film Festival (WFF)
August 27 to September 7 2003, Montréal - Canada
