SSF: “Silent”

Today’s short is a thinly-veiled marketing piece for Dolby. …hang on. Let’s start over…

Today’s short film is a flat-out, straight-up ad for Dolby Atmos. Heck, it even includes Dolby in the title: “Dolby Presents: Silent, a Short Film.”

And I don’t even care. Because it’s gorgeous. And includes so many wonderful cinematic references, it made my film-snobby hairs stand up and cheer.

“Silent” is an animated short film created by Academy Award® winning Moonbot Studios. It celebrates how storytellers, inventors, and technology work together to create cinema magic.

The story follows two street performers who dream of bringing their “Picture and Sound Show” to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark on a cinematic adventure of sight and sound to find the audience they always wanted.

The sound was created by Oscar® nominated sound designer Steve Boeddeker.

If the name Moonbot Studios (or the look of the gentleman in the short) seems familiar, it’s because the latter is Morris Lessmore, from the former’s Oscar winner, “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.”

HT to FilmSchoolRejects, which has a couple more Annie Award nominees at their site. (Plus, there’s a bonus “Making Of” video. I love those.)

Sound is one of those things now that really binds you into that world (of movies). It envelops you completely.

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