Blog's 10 years anniversary - Lost and found from 1996/97
19/06/12 16:31
“Mr X” - my student film from 1997.
The celebration of my blogs the 10th anniversary continues and this time I focus on some old clips from 96/97. At that time, I was a student at the by then new Animation School in Eksjö. With a visionary stardusted language the school's dean managed to collect about ten students and a handful of artists who teached us animation. I had the ambition to make a decadent detective story called Mr X. The film would be a blue
film noir with a dab of yellow here and a dab of red there. However, the newly purchased S-VHS tape recorders ran amok and could not decide if the colors all of a sudden should be inverted or not, so the end result was a flickering screen in a epileptic style. One of the few scenes that survived the flickering war appeared in Smålandsnytt of December 96, as well as a 27-year-old Bo Nordin talking about the education (please do not judge me too hard - it was the nineties after all... )
SVT Smålandsnytt 1996.
Finally, the flickering problem was solved by making the full movie black and white, which per se fits the genre.
In the end, the film was more a kind of trailer rather than a short film. There is no real story in it, my focus was on car chases, femme fatale and some bam-bam. Since then, 15 years ago, I pledged a $100 Reward to anyone who could come up with a good detective story for me - a reward that I am still willing to pay out for anyone who can help me with the movie idea. Send me a email if you want to give it a go!