Doghouse - A short animated film about love & family & stuff
"So ... here we go ..."
That's the phrase I start every morning with. A sort-of Monday mantra that helps me open my peepers and helps me to peel my body from the bed.
It's also how I feel about publishing content that is really kinda personal. Like this film I'm sharing with you today. A film told from the perspective of a young boy as his family collapses around him. That definitely is not about me.
Not completely anyway.
This is another of those films I made out of my own pocket because I couldn't find any funding. I wanted it to be big with movie-star voiceover actors but I couldn't afford any of that. So instead it's a scrappy little doodle with my own voice. I kind of feel like it works all the better for it.
Enough of all that.
Watch the film here:
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"Another fantastic use of talking over a film," Luke Kondor
"A cinematic odyssey from the mind of a man, evidently in need of psychiatric help," Luke Kondor
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"Incredible really, that Luke won't shut up during his own film," Luke Kondor
A short animated film about love & family & stuff.
Rhuben’s parents have had a falling out, and it looks like his dad is going to be in the doghouse for a while… literally.
I was interviewed by Director's Notes about the project HERE. And here's a little snippet:
DN:Doghouse unfolds within a haze of reminiscence. Did events playing out through memory inform the film’s tonal choices?
LK: I grew up in a house full of dogs. We had 10 at one point. Big ones. Sloppy kisses and furry school trousers and all that. I always tell my mum that I was raised by the dogs just as much as her just because I feel like I learned a lot from them. Not maths and pot-washing, but lessons about how to live a life and be happy in the moment. And so when I initially sat down to write the story, I was very much reminiscing about my own life. I liked the idea that my memories might have warped over time and the facts may have become distorted. I like the idea that the story is told from the perspective of a person, trying to recall a pivotal moment in their childhood, and getting a little confused along the way. When we talk about our past we often exaggerate the reality to emphasise the lessons we learned. I was trying to capture the magic that lies in that confusion.
Luke Kondor is a filmmaker and writer. He started writing on his computer in his early teens and never looked back, and now he’s got really sore eyes.
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Wonderful. The feelings of a child are irresisitble and doubly so when you share yor own.
Great story, of course upvoted!
Thanks @future24!
Heartwarming! Loved every morsel of this...even the buffet food on the floor!
They're the tastiest bits :)