With their awards-contending animated short The Opposites Game, filmmakers Lisa Labracio and Anna Samo faced the challenge of bringing a compelling visual representation to a brief yet powerful poem by Brendan Constantine—a poem they considered perfect.
Packing an array of sumptuous and imaginative stop-motion imagery into a little less than 5 minutes, the piece watches as a war of words erupts in a classroom, when a teacher invites his students to answer a deceptively simple prompt: “What is the opposite of a gun?”
The Opposites Game is the first short in a series called “There’s a Poem for That” from Ted-Ed, Ted’s youth and education initiative. Comprising a global network of over 250,000 teachers, Ted-Ed’s aim is to “spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world,” currently publishing around 150 pieces of animation a year with this mission in mind.
“There’s a Poem for...
Packing an array of sumptuous and imaginative stop-motion imagery into a little less than 5 minutes, the piece watches as a war of words erupts in a classroom, when a teacher invites his students to answer a deceptively simple prompt: “What is the opposite of a gun?”
The Opposites Game is the first short in a series called “There’s a Poem for That” from Ted-Ed, Ted’s youth and education initiative. Comprising a global network of over 250,000 teachers, Ted-Ed’s aim is to “spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world,” currently publishing around 150 pieces of animation a year with this mission in mind.
“There’s a Poem for...
- 12/2/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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