Bead Game

Bead Game

| 5 min

The NFB's 36th Oscar®-nominated film.

In this animated short, thousands of beads are arranged and manipulated, assuming shapes of creatures both mythical and real. They continually devour, merge, and absorb one another in explosions of color.

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Bead Game, Ishu Patel, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Ishu Patel
  • animation
    Ishu Patel
  • executive producer
    Derek Lamb
  • music
    J.P. Ghosh

  • tarapurnima

    This is a lovely film. It would be good to have a bit more information about it - some words from the film maker perhaps? I'd like to know how long it took to make, how many people worked on it, what was the conceptualization, and so on.

    tarapurnima, 11 Dec 2013

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