Mynarski Death Plummet
Synopsis
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Composed of 21,000 hand-painted 35mm frames, Mynarski Death Plummet combines aviation agitprop with abstract animation to create a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, infinity and jellyfish.
Festivals
- Busan Short Film Festival - South Korea, 2016
- Erata Motion Pictures short Film Festival - St-Peterburgh, Russia, 2016
- Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg - Germany, 2016
- Glas animation fetsival - Berkeley, USA, 2016
- Minimalen Short Film Festival - Norway, 2016
- Animatika International Animated Film Fetsival - Slovenia, 2015
- Tenerife Short Film Festival - Spain, 2015
- Aguilar de Campo - Spain, 2015
- Leuven International Short Film Festival - Belgium, 2015
- Bratislava International Film Festival - Slovakia, 2015
- Interfilm Berlin - Germany, 2015
- Internationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur – Switzerland, 2015
- Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi Temiscamingue – Canada 2015
- AFI Film Festival – L/A., USA 2015
- St-Louis International Film Festival, USA 2015
- Animatic Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain, 2015
- 8th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival - New York, USA, 2015
- 30th FIFF Namur - Namur, Belgium, 2015
- 5th Festival du cinéma de la Ville de Québec - Québec, Canada, 2015
- 6th Ottawa International Film Fetsival - Ottawa, Canada, 2015
- 13th Pacific Meridian International Film Festival - Vladivostock, Russia, 2015
- Atlantic Film Fetsival - Halifax, Canada, 2015
- 16th OFF-Courts Trouville - Trouville, France, 2015
- 38th Cambridge Film Festival - Cambridge, UK, 2015
- 7th Les Percéides, Festival International de Cinéma et d'Art - Percé, Canada, 2015
- Long Week of Short Films - Hong Kong, China, 2015
- 23rd Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival - Portugal, 2015
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival - Annecy, France 2015
- 31st Hamburg International Short Film Fetsival - Hamburg, Germany, 2015
- 25th filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Schwerin, Germany 2015
- 2nd Montreal International Animation Film Festival - Montreal, Canada 2015
- 19e Regard sur le court - Saguenay, Canada, 2105
- 33e Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois - Montréal, Canada, 2015
- Sundance Film Festival - Utah, U.S., 2015 (International Premiere)
- 28e Festival International du cinéma francophone en Acadie - Moncton, N-B, Canada, 2014
- 43e Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal, Canada, 2014
- 32nd Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada, 2014
- 38th Toronto International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada, 2014
Director: Matthew Rankin
Script: Mr Rankin
Cast: Alek Rzeszowski, Robert Vilar, Annie St-Pierre, Eve Majzels & Louis Negin
DOP: Julien Fontaine
Art direction: Louisa Schabas
Editing: Matthew Rankin and Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Sound: Patrice LeBlanc
Original music: Patrick Keenan
Producers: Mr. Rankin and Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette
Version
- French, English and Polish
Format
- DCP, 1:85, 2K, 7.1, 5.1, and stereo sound
- .mov digital file, H264
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and educated at McGill and Université Laval. He is the director of some 30 short films and one feature which have been presented at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Annecy International Animation Festival, the Berlinale, Cannes Critics Week and on the Criterion Channel. His debut feature, The Twentieth Century (2019) was award the Best Canadian First Feature prize at TIFF and the FIPRESCI Prize of the International Film Critics at the Berlinale.
