A Saucer of water for the birds

1993

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The unusual technique of sand animation is used to tell the story of a woman and her granddaughter. It starts with them sitting at the kitchen table playing cards. As the cards are shuffled and cut, the film cuts between pre-war Poland, Europe in the Holocaust, the woman’s childhood and the present. The old woman’s homeland is evoked as a world the child strives to create from anecdotes. The woman’s present is shown as one etched with darkness of her family’s experience of the Holocaust.

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Credits

director

Ann Shenfield

creator

Ann Shenfield

producer

Ann Shenfield

Duration

00:09:00:00

Production dates
1993

Appears in

Group of items

AFI Collection: a selection of tertiary student films. Tape 1

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1003580

Subject categories

Animation

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode

Digital Betacam; Master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

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