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Cattle Call

Genre

Animation, Documentary, Experimental

Directed By

Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk

Date: Sep 2008
Length: 00:03:30
Process: Colour
Country: Canada
Language: English
Shooting Format: Super 16mm
Sound Format: Music

Synopsis

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. It is our hope that the film will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.

Tags

absurdity, auctioneer, cows, currency, high-speed, livestock, process, stop-motion, text

Credits

Director
Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin
Screenplay
Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin
Animation
Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin
Producer
Matthew Rankin
Cinematographer
Mike Maryniuk
Editor
Alek Rzeszowski
Sound Design
Mike Petkau
Sound Mix
Mike Germain
Music
Mike Petkau, Jaxon Haldane
Cast
Tim Dowler, Scott Campbell, Neil Fraser, Hal Hedley, Michael Olito, Jenny Western, Alek Rzeszowski, Tim Roth

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