Oedipus
Foreign title: Oedipe (French)
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada, il Luster Films
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
To Oedipus, women are an enigma. Why, with her bothersome husband finally out of the way, did his mistress inexplicably run off? Don't lose your head, thinks Oedipus. Just try to understand. And so the valiant young milkman embarks on an introspective journey, a process of self-discovery and regression in which he retraces the path of his life.
Parodying the Greek myth, and throwing in a bunch of well-known NFB animated characters for good measure, director Paul Driessen offers up a backwards tragicomic version of the classic tale. Oedipus is Driessen at his absurdist best.
Parodying the Greek myth, and throwing in a bunch of well-known NFB animated characters for good measure, director Paul Driessen offers up a backwards tragicomic version of the classic tale. Oedipus is Driessen at his absurdist best.
Characters
Oedipus
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Paul Driessen
Producing
- Producer
- Marcy Page, Arnoud Rijken, Michiel J. Snijders
- Executive Producers
- Arnoud Rijken, David Verrall
Writing
- Writer
- Paul Driessen
Animation
- Animator
- Paul Driessen
- Additional Animation
- Frodo Kuipers
Voices
- Voice
- Alexander Ivanovici
- Additional Voice
- Carlo Mestroni
Music
- Music
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Additional Arrangements
- Dave Gossage
- Musicians
- Tommy Gauthier, Tom Gossage, Jean-Guy Grenier, Francisco Lozano, Marc Villemure
- Music Recording
- Pascal Shefteshy
- Music Mix
- Pascal Shefteshy
Editing
- Editor
- Janet Perlman
- Online Editing
- Denis Gathelier
Crew
- Design
- Paul Driessen
- Sound
- Jeroen Nadorp, Ronald Nadorp
- Final Mix
- Jeroen Nadorp, Ronald Nadorp
- Voice Recording
- Pierre Yves Drapeau, Geoffrey Mitchell
- Digital Imaging
- Randall Finnerty
- Color
- Randall Finnerty
- Digital Assistance
- Sarah Marchand, Christopher Diaz
- Digital Consultation
- Susan Gourley
- Technical Coordination
- Julie Laperrière
- End Credits Design
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- Administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Production Coordination
- Elaine Largie, Marie-Christine Nadon
Awards
Best Script, ANIMAGE- International Animation Festival, Pernambuco, Brazil, 2011