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Aria


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ARIA (2001)
Technique: Stop Motion Animation
Country: Canada
An animated short inspired by Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly. The puppet Butterfly lives alone on an island, until a white ship brings the handsome sailor Pinkerton. Their love affair grows until Pinkerton has to leave with his ship. The Butterfly gives birth and waits for her sailor to return. Years later when her prayers are answered her world is torn to pieces when he returns.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Production by National Film Board of Canada
Direction by Pjotr Sapegin
Script by Berit Reiss-Andersen
Direction of Photography by Janne Hansen
Animation by Pjotr Sapegin, Ronald Kubicek Hansen
Puppets Made by Eugenia Bogolubova
Models by Ronald Kubicek Hansen
Editing by Pal Gengenbach
Production by David Reiss-Andersen (Pravada), Marcel Jean (ONF/NFB
Music: Excerpts from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

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