Old Fangs

November 13, 2010 8:55 AM

Old Fangs - a lovely but sad cartoon about a young wolf confronting his father, whom he has not seen since childhood.

The blog of the filmmaker, Adrien Merigeanu, has some development pictures and an earlier film, le carnet de chloe, which appears to use some of the same characters (I am sadly ignorant of French so I cannot say more). There is also a video on the making of "Old Fangs", which is mostly about how the voice acting was done.

Cartoon Saloon, the Irish studio that produced "Old Fangs", is also responsible for "The Secret of Kells" animated feature, and another short animated film based on an Inuit folktale, From Darkness (warning: brief animated nudity).

posted by hackwolf (8 comments total)

There sure are a lot of troubled animated canines on Metafilter today. Neat.
posted by WalterMitty at 9:00 AM on November 13, 2010

The canines are trying to take back Caturday
posted by The Whelk at 9:01 AM on November 13, 2010 [1 favorite]

Eponysterical. Nice find; sets off my overcast Northwest Saturday perfectly.
posted by bayani at 9:13 AM on November 13, 2010

I had some quiet but important thoughts about forgiveness while I watched this. Thank you for it.
posted by Countess Elena at 9:28 AM on November 13, 2010 [2 favorites]

What Countess Elena said. Wow.
posted by katillathehun at 10:10 AM on November 13, 2010

Truly beautiful. In many another film the pacing would seem too slow but it's just perfect here, packs so much into 11 minutes. Congratulations to everyone who worked on it.
posted by Erasmouse at 2:01 PM on November 13, 2010

This hits a bit close to home with me. I have a similar relationship with my dad. I've always thought about making contact with him again, but that's probably a future askMe question.

I feel like they've animated my neurosis.
posted by hellojed at 4:11 PM on November 13, 2010

This was really nice, thanks.
posted by danb at 9:41 PM on November 13, 2010