Strings

Directed by Wendy Tilby

Canada, 1991 (animation, 10 minutes, colour)

Also known as "Cordes"

Image: © National Film Board of Canada

Video (National Film Board of Canada)

Film Description:
"This film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected and pressing problem arises, however, these comfortable connections are compromised. Produced using a painstaking animation process that involves painting on glass and stop-action filming, Strings is a film as beautiful as it is haunting. Film without words."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Wendy Tilby
Produced by:	David Verrall, Douglas MacDonald, Barrie McLean
Animation:	Wendy Tilby
Music:	Chris Crilly
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada

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Award won by Strings

Genie Award: Best Animated Short -- awarded to Wendy Tilby

Notes about Strings

Nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Film (Animated) category.

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Quote by the Director

"I was just interested in the idea of living in apartments and the idea of intimacy and how—you know, if you live in an apartment building and you can hear the sounds of your next-door neighbour, you know their routines. And yet, you might run into each other on the front of the building or in the elevator or something and you barely say hello. That dichotomy was kind of interesting. So I always wanted to do something to do with that."
-- Wendy Tilby (source)

Web Sites about Strings

National Film Board of Canada. "NFB -- Strings/Cordes." National Film Board of Canada. http://www3.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=18431.
Office national du film du Canada. "ONF -- Cordes/Strings." Office national du film du Canada. http://www3.onf.ca/collection/films/fiche/index.php?id=25963. [in French]