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Bunny (1998 film)

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Bunny
Promotional poster
Directed byChris Wedge
Written byChris Wedge
Produced byNina Rappaport
Edited byTim Nordquist
Music byTom Waits
Kathleen Brennan
Production
company
Release date
  • November 2, 1998 (November 2, 1998)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bunny is a 1998 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Chris Wedge and produced by Blue Sky Studios.[1] It was featured on the original 2-disc special edition DVD release of Ice Age in 2002 and was also featured on the 2006 "Super-Cool Edition" re-release to coincide with the release of Ice Age: The Meltdown.[2][3] The short film, which features music by Tom Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan, was Influenced by the classic Uncle Wiggily illustrations by Lansing Campbell. In 1998, Bunny won a Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[4] as well as a Golden Nica Award at the Prix Ars Electronica.[5]

Plot

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Bunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder; she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. Eventually, she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly and angrily pours into a pan and shoves into the oven. She then sets the kitchen timer and falls asleep, only to be awakened by loud rumblings and a blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Crawling inside, she finds herself face-to-face with the moth and begins to float through an otherworldly space toward the source of the light, with a pair of giant moth wings sprouting from her back to propel her as the insect leads her along. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder; the shadows and reflections of two of the moths play across the image as well.[6]

Accolades

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References

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  1. ^ Watch 3 Early Animated Shorts by 'Epic' Director Chris Wedge Including the Oscar Winner 'Bunny' - Film School Rejects
  2. ^ Horn, Steven (October 29, 2002). "Ice Age". IGN. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  3. ^ Ice Age: Disc Special Edition - Animated Views
  4. ^ "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 21, 1999. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  5. ^ "1999 Prix Winners: Computer Animation / Visual Effects". Prix Ars Electronica. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  6. ^ 1999 Bunny: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive
  7. ^ Short Film Winners: 1999 Oscars
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