International Competition

 
Country :  Canada Director: Jesse Rosensweet 35 mm / 8' / 2002
 

Director: Jesse Rosensweet
 

Began his artistic career as a photographer. A fascination with motion in still photographs and a love of the cinema led him to work in cinematography. Years of work as a camera assistant, operator and director of photography provided the technical finesse to tackle a stop-motion project. The Stone of Folly is his directorial debut.

The Stone of Folly

Synopsis: A doctor is making his way through the corridors of a vast medieval hospital. He enters the X-ray room, where we catch a glimpse of the process as performed five hundred years ago. He then continues to the operating theatre, where the patient is anaesthetized and operated upon. The procedure works, but there is something wrong with the methodology ...
 
Script: Alastair Dickson, J. Rosensweet
Animator: Philip Marcus
Cinematography: Jeremy Benning
Edit: Marc Collister
Music: David Buchbinder
Producer: Sweet Thing Productions, J. Rosensweet

Presence in international festivals:
Ottawa, 2002, Canada / Toronto, 2002, Canada / Annecy, 2002, France / Cannes, 2002, France, Jury prize for best short film / Hiroshima, 2002, Japan / Espinho, 2002, Portugal / Chicago, 2002, U.S.A., Huao prize for best animated short film

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