Magnetism

An animation that bleakly looks at love. When a couple meet and lay eyes on each other in a bar it’s instant attraction. Locked into an endless embrace (and locked in chains) with magnets abounding to symbolise the courtship, the relationship dramatically ends. The magnets are seen to disappear and join a graveyard of other magnets, a graveyard of lost love.

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Credits

director

Paul Vincent

producer

Dennis Tupicoff

production company

Victorian College of the Arts, School of Film and Television

Duration

00:04:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1994

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

315417

Subject categories

Animation

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Love

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Collected

1 times

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Australia, 1994