by Awkward Animations
Mother is a meditation on memory, love and loss. A man sits alone on a park bench, crown on his head, as fragments of his life play out around him - from childhood wonder to the sorrow of grief. Through each scene he relives the tender moments that defined him, until the cycle loops forward, showing how love is passed from parent to child.
Mother reminds us that while life is fleeting, the gift of love is eternal.
Wow - he's done it again. Pulling out a masterpiece that pulls on the heart string without needing a line of dialogue to give us the full breadth of complex and deep emotions.
So great. The concept is top tier.
This is the work of a master!!!!
A simple, but emotionally moving story.
Awkward Animations never ceases to amaze me.
Had the privilege of getting to see this at the Grand Finals last night! Absolutely blown away that you made this in only 48 hours (or less after going swimming haha!) Such a heart warming story, endearing characters and great animation! So so cool!
Awkward Animations you absolutely blow me away every year in this competition, and MOTHER was no exception, a beautiful film that pulls on the heart strings throughout, with warmth and reflection consistently on display from frame 1 to the last.
What Adam does is genuinely next level from a technical point of view. There have been a large number of stop motion animated films in the competition over the years, but I immediately forget I'm even watching a collection of thousands of photographs with the lighting, the camera movement, the weather effects and most importantly a fully lived in world. How this did not win Best Production design at the grand finals let alone Auckland is beyond me!
It is genuinely endearing to see wholesome heartwarming films that come from a place of love in this competition. To see a bildungsroman of a life pieced together with such tender care really filled me with joy. It's the little moments that are often the big moments in our lives and the film captured that absolutely perfectly.
Also my goodness me that sound design and choice of music was so pitch perfect it really captured the beautiful memories amazingly well.
My two little nitpicks is the park bench as central location to relieve memories did call to mind FORREST GUMP pretty quickly for me, and whilst the beats were brilliant, showing how great a mum she was to our lead to pick him up whenever he was down, and provided the literal building blocks for him to lead his life, I just wonder if a slightly stronger dramatic question at some point could have elevated the film further? Don't get me wrong, it is a brilliant film and an inspiring one that's just my nitpicks. Please never change how you make your films!
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