The Brown Dog

Filmstill The Brown Dog

The Brown Dog

The Brown Dog
Nadia Hallgren, Jamie-James Medina
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
UK,
USA
2024
14 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
German SDH subtitles
European premiere

The winter’s night draws its last breaths in the milky amber glow of the street lights. Snowflakes trickle down, the camera slowly circles a small guardroom in a driveway. Night after night, this lonely island is occupied by: Nobody. As a security guard in the cold, he guarantees the safety of the warm homes and their owners. He passes the time with a recalcitrant oil radiator, a calendar girl on a green meadow and his meandering thoughts. His security logs serve as a seismograph of reflections on life and nightly rounds of the square. Nobody is wrapped in a shell of coolness grown over a long time, which makes it hard for him to react to a rare smile the way he would like to in his heart.
Nadia Hallgren and Jamie-James Medina condense an autobiographical short story by artist and musician Willis Earl Beal aka “Nobody”. The actor Michael K. Williams, who died in 2021, lent his voice to this inner monologue and gives it a sleepy, melodious sound. In this very cinematic, melancholy piece in a state of limbo, casual observations open a philosophical cosmos. But every time the journey of the mind crashes on the tarmac of the carpark in front of the block of flats.


André Eckardt

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Screenings & Tickets DOK Leipzig Logo

31.10.
#433
CineStar 5
The Brown Dog + Luciano
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31.10.2024
CineStar 5
#433
The Brown Dog + Luciano
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01.11.
#512
Cinestar 2
The Brown Dog + Luciano
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01.11.2024
Cinestar 2
#512
The Brown Dog + Luciano
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03.11.
#732
CineStar 5
The Brown Dog + Luciano
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03.11.2024
CineStar 5
#732
The Brown Dog + Luciano
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Nadia Hallgren, Jamie-James Medina
Script
Willis Earl Beal
Editor
Spencer Campbell
Producer
Michael Stirton, Jamie-James Medina, Nadia Hallgren
Sound
Machine Sound
Sound Design
Michalis Anthis
Score
Tyshawn Sorey
Animation
Fons Schiedon
Animation Technique
3D Digital

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Main Contact
Jamie-James Medina
jjm@soundviewprojects.com
World Sales
Brian Newman
brian@sub-genre.com
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award