To Build a Fire | |
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Directed by | Fx Goby |
Written by | Jack London |
Produced by | Samuel François-Steininger Chris O'reilly Charlotte Bavasso Christel Delahaye |
Starring | Tony Fish |
Music by | Mathieu Alvado |
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Running time | 13 minutes |
Countries | France United Kingdom |
Language | English |
To Build a Fire (French: Construire un Feu) is a 2016 French animated short film directed by Fx Goby adapted from the 1902 and 1908 short story " To Build a Fire" by Jack London. The film has been presented in a number of festivals including the Cannes Film Festival, [1] the Anibar International Animation Festival, [2] the New Orleans Film Festival [3] and the Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the prize for best animation. [4]
The film was partially funded through Indiegogo, an American crowdfunding platform. [5]
In the harshness of midwinter, an unnamed man attempts to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness to arrive at a camp where his friends are while bracing temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero with his companion, a wolf-dog. Struggling to survive, he makes multiple attempts to build a simple fire. [6]
The short was also included in The animation Showcase Best of the year 2016.
To Build a Fire | |
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Directed by | Fx Goby |
Written by | Jack London |
Produced by | Samuel François-Steininger Chris O'reilly Charlotte Bavasso Christel Delahaye |
Starring | Tony Fish |
Music by | Mathieu Alvado |
Release date |
|
Running time | 13 minutes |
Countries | France United Kingdom |
Language | English |
To Build a Fire (French: Construire un Feu) is a 2016 French animated short film directed by Fx Goby adapted from the 1902 and 1908 short story " To Build a Fire" by Jack London. The film has been presented in a number of festivals including the Cannes Film Festival, [1] the Anibar International Animation Festival, [2] the New Orleans Film Festival [3] and the Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the prize for best animation. [4]
The film was partially funded through Indiegogo, an American crowdfunding platform. [5]
In the harshness of midwinter, an unnamed man attempts to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness to arrive at a camp where his friends are while bracing temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero with his companion, a wolf-dog. Struggling to survive, he makes multiple attempts to build a simple fire. [6]
The short was also included in The animation Showcase Best of the year 2016.