Here's an award-winning little film from
down under, a labor of love by Chris Jones, who took roughly six years to
complete it. To simply quote what he himself writes at his website, "Chris Jones
has been wasting time on this silly drawing, animating, [and] music-making
nonsense virtually since the day he was born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
Whilst mucking around getting an Industrial Design degree at Swinburne
University of Technology, he began working as a freelance children's book
illustrator, and following graduation continued illustrating and animating
before becoming a computer game artist at Beam Software (later to become
Infogrames). He left Infogrames in May 2000 to work full-time on The Passenger, which he didn't complete
until 2006. He is still recovering from the ordeal."
A little, funny tale of horror and revenge,
The Passenger is both effective and entertaining,
while the entire set up and editing of scenes reveals an eye that would
probably serve a life-action horror movie well. It seems rather a shame that
the filmmaker doesn't seem to have ever recovered from the ordeal to become a
productive filmmaker, live action or animation. (Although he did complete the
extremely short, one-punch "short" found here.)
Chris Jones only ever uploaded a low-res
version of his film, so should you want to see it in finer quality, you should
buy it from him. Info for doing that is found here.
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