{"id":166152,"date":"2022-01-24T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=166152"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:02:14","slug":"how-oscar-contending-animated-short-affairs-of-the-art-continues-harnessing-family-obsessions-indiewire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/how-oscar-contending-animated-short-affairs-of-the-art-continues-harnessing-family-obsessions-indiewire\/","title":{"rendered":"How Oscar-Contending Animated Short \u2018Affairs of the Art\u2019 Continues Harnessing Family Obsessions | IndieWire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How Oscar-Contending Animated Short \u2018Affairs of the Art\u2019 Continues Harnessing Family Obsessions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beryl is back, and this time she\u2019s bringing her family along for the ride. Featuring the irrepressible working-class Welsh housewife at the height of her artistic powers, director Joanna Quinn and writer-producer Les Mills\u2019 \u201cAffairs of the Art\u201d is a boisterous and heartwarming celebration of one family\u2019s peculiar obsessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A co-production between the National Film Board of Canada and Beryl Productions International, the 16-minute, hand-drawn animated short film continues the series that began with the duo\u2019s 1987 film \u201cGirls Night Out,\u201d followed by \u201cBody Beautiful\u201d (1990) and \u201cDreams & Desires \u2014 Family Ties\u201d (2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinn and Mills have won numerous awards for their films and commercials, including four BAFTAs, three Emmys, and two Academy Award nominations for \u201cFamous Fred\u201d (1997) and \u201cWife of Bath \u2013 Canterbury Tales Part 1\u201d (1998). And the BAFTA- and Oscar-shortlisted \u201cAffairs of the Art\u201d has racked up at least 25 international awards, including a jury award for special distinction at the Annecy Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinn\u2019s trademark visual style is fluid and dynamic with loose, broad pencil strokes, complemented by Mills\u2019 wildly funny script, which has Beryl reflecting on her family\u2019s obsessions as she muses on her own journey as an artist. (Read full story…<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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