Films : Dear Nelson : all
animate! synopsis
Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no object (plane mailing in fact) in these continental correspondences, monochrome messages that style the times and texts of greats.
one sentence synopsis
A short film based on letters written by Simone de Beauvoir.
short synopsis
A short film based on letters written by Simone de Beauvoir in Paris to Nelson Algren in Chicago between 1947 – 1956.
The film takes five moments from their long distance relationship and charts the emotional progression from heady excitement to cool detachment.
key credits
- director
- Sarah Cox
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Julia Rayner
- director of photography
- Kieran McGuigan
- animation
- Layla Atkinson
- editor
- Rod Main
- music
- Pierre Archimbault
- Oliver Davies
- producer
- Daniell Susijn
Sarah Cox
short biography
Sarah Cox studied at the Royal College of Art. She teaches animation and has worked in commercial animation as director at Picasso Pictures.
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The production company run by directors Sally Arthur and Sarah Cox
a film by Sarah Cox
direction
- director
- Sarah Cox
based upon
- actual credit
- adapted from
- title of original material
- "Lettres á Nelson Algren"
- author
- Simone de Beauvoir
- type of adapted source material
- in book "Beloved Chicago Man"
- copyright
- © Editions Gallimard
cast in picture
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Julia Rayner
voice-over
- Nelson Algren
- Mac Macdonald
live-action personnel
- director of photography
- Kieran McGuigan
- camera operator
- Rory Moles
- gaffer
- Barry Read
- production assistant
- Serena Jenks
- jamie Marshall
image personnel
- animation
- Layla Atkinson
- graphics
- Shelley Pellegrin
- titles
- Ian Cross
- visual effects
- Danny Etherington
- Mark Holden
- telecine operator or colourist
- Max Horton
- rostrum camera
- Nick Summers
- Peter Tupy
- editor
- Rod Main
sound personnel
- music
- Pierre Archimbault
- Oliver Davies
- sound designer
- Pierre Archimbault
- Oliver Davies
production personnel
- post production
- Julia Wigginton
- producer
- Daniell Susijn
support
- primary funding
Arts Council of England/Channel Four
© Sarah Cox 2001
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technical
process summary
The film combines black and white live action with traditional and digital animation to create five seperate moods.
master copy format
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
