Espolio
Release Date: 1970-02-06
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated animation based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the responsibility of the innovator for the thing he makes. In the film, a carpenter builds a cross but is reluctant to become involved in the right or wrong of situations that bring men to die on crosses. His interest is in his own craftsmanship. To illustrate this moral, the filmmaker used light-pen drawings, giving colour and emphasis through optical processes.
Rating: 7 / 10
Cast
Walter Massey
as Narrator
Crew
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Lucien Marleau - Editor
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Sidney Goldsmith - Animation
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Sidney Goldsmith - Director
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Tom Daly - Producer
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Kjeld Nielsen - Director of Photography
Reviews
There are some stunning pencil drawings here as the short poem by Earle Birney is etched out before us. It’s soundtracked to sound like an Hollywood movie about Imperial Rome and it’s the work of the ...