Mr Hollow
2008 · 6m · Canada
Directed by Rodrigo Gudiño, Vincent Marcone
Genres: animation, fantasy, horror
Tones: dark
A 1930s photograph slowly transforms before the viewer's eyes, revealing hidden details that expose a story of kidnapping and occult horror within a single morphing image.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The audacity of building an entire horror film from a single photograph — and making it work — is the kind of formal constraint that reveals what cinema actually is.
Same film as #2153 essentially — single animated photograph horror. Same reasoning applies; the formal conceit is genuine and the lineage is real. Six minutes of focused craft.
This is the same Gudiño/Marcone film catalogued elsewhere as 'The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow' — single animated photograph revealing kidnapping and occult horror without a cut. Six minutes of pure cinema-of-the-detail; an elegant, durable formal exercise.
Reviews
A creepy look at the chaotic nature of everything that can happen during that one millisecond of time when a photograph is taken.
Festivals
- Fantasia Film Festival 2008, Best Animated Short Film
- Sitges International Film Festival 2008, Best Animated Short