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Synopsis. Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily. Remove Ads.
Feb 21, 2023 · February 21, 2023 @ 3:39 PM. If there is a test for determining whether one has arrived in Hollywood, “Ice Merchants” producer Bruno Caetano aced it. The day before he and the animated short ...
WesternAnimati…. Ice Merchants is a 2022 animated short film (14 minutes) directed by João Gonzalez. It is about a father and son that live in a house which hangs from a glacier, supported only by ropes that are tied to hooks that are drilled into the sheer ice cliff face. The house looks to be at least two thousand feet above the valley below.
Jan 12, 2023 · With Ice Merchants taking the short film format, João was understandably worried about how he was going to fit all of his themes into its 14 minutes. And initially, in its very first iteration, the Ice Merchants was a film primarily focusing on loss. Like João’s two other films, The Voyager (2017) and Nestor (2019), the project was ...
Jan 9, 2023 · January 9, 2023. Grace Ebert. A frigid and precarious tale, the beautifully animated short film “ Ice Merchants ” by João Gonzalez follows a father and son as they harvest and sell ice. The pair live on a cliff-side home and dive from their balcony each day, allowing their parachutes to deliver them and their product safely to the village ...
Mar 6, 2023 · Set in a vertiginous cold house on the side of a cliff, a father and son collect the local ice in order to sell it to the villagers below. João Gonzalez’s startling Oscar nominated animation Ice Merchants, which recently picked up the Best Short Subject award at the Annies, is a gorgeous, heart-rending portrayal of loss and sacrifice based in a barren, Baltic environment.
