Has beans

Australia, 1998

Film

The world is full of war and where can we hope to escape it? Home? - Certainly not by a stretch of this little computer animation. A lone kidney bean is being given the rough treatment by two much larger, bullying lima beans. In a number of fancy manoeuvres the kidney bean tricks the bullying two into believing they’ve killed him. When the kidney bean reaches his kin a battle of revenge is planned. The plan is foiled once ensconced in battle by the true ruler - he/she who cooks beans in the kitchen. The battle scenes are stylistically similar to and remniscent of the battle scenes in the paintings of Australian artist, John Bracks, where he used pencils and decks of cards symbolically and as structural elements to recreate battle scenes. No dialogue, sound effects only.

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Credits

director

Andrew Tamandl

creator

Andrew Tamandl

producer

AFTRS

Miriam Stein

Duration

00:08:50:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1998

Appears in

Group of items

AFI Collection: a selection of tertiary student films. Tape 1

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1003551

Language

No spoken word

Audience classification

Exempt

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode

Digital Betacam; Master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

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