Subconscious Password

Subconscious Password (2013)

In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try (and try, and try) to prompt Charles to remember the name. Finally, he realizes he will simply have to surrender himself to his predicament.

Date of release
2013-06-10
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (10)
Runtime
11m
Genres
Animation
Director
Chris Landreth

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Annecy Cristal for a Short Film

Subconscious Password is a 2013 3-D animated film by Chris Landreth offering an imaginary, comedic look at the inner workings of Landreth's mind, as he tries to remember someone's name at a party.

Production

The film is made with computer animation, as well as pixilation sequences at the beginning and end of the film, featuring animation director John R. Dilworth as the friend whose name Landreth cannot recall. Subconscious Password is Landreth's first 3-D film and third with the NFB, Copperheart Entertainment and Seneca College.

The idea for the film came to Landreth after watching a rerun of the game show Password in 2010.

More than fifteen Seneca College graduating students worked on Subconscious Password, supported by five faculty members, as part of the Seneca Summer Animation Institute. After graduation, a number of these students were hired to work on the project until it was completed in February 2013.

The images of celebrities used in the film were developed from a variety of sources, with Sammy Davis Jr. appearing via live-action footage available in the public domain and James Joyce derived from photos projected onto a pseudo-3D character.

Landreth has stated that the film begins "relatively flat", using more stereoscopic depth to immerse audiences as the film progresses.

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