The Albatross

2004

Beyond Animation

Paul Bush | UK | 1999 | Animation | 35mm | Color | 14min 30sec

SYNOPSIS

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by nineteenth century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of colour filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

1998 자그레이브애니메이션페스티벌15분 이하 단편부분 베스트 필름
1998 히로시마애니메이션페스티벌 심사위원 특별상
1998 포르투갈시나니마애니메이션영화제 최우수상
2000 뭄바이국제영화제 금상

DIRECTOR
Paul Bush

Paul Bush

STAFF

Director/Producer/ Editor Paul Bush Voices Gerard Murphy, Jack Fortune Music Geoffrey Bush Script Paul Bush (adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Animation Paul Bush, Mie Nagai, Mina Mileva Camera John Stewart, Paul Bush Costumes Joanna Macklin Sound design Andy Cowton A BBC Bristol/Ancient Mariner Co-Production in association with The London Production Fund and The Arts Council of England, supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England.