The Physics of Sorrow (2019)
Physique de la tristesse
Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.
- Date of release
- 2019-09-06
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 27m
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Director
- Theodore Ushev
Casting
- Rossif Sutherland — (voice)
- Donald Sutherland — (voice)
- Manuel Tadros — (voice)
- Theodore Ushev — (voice)
- Xavier Dolan — (voice)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0
The Physics of Sorrow is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Theodore Ushev and released in 2019. The film explores themes of memory, time, displacement, and identity through the fragmented reflections of a nameless protagonist who recalls his childhood in post-communist Bulgaria and his subsequent emigration to Canada.
Production
The film was animated entirely through encaustic painting, an old artistic technique involving the melting of pigmented beeswax. It was narrated by Rossif Sutherland, and features a smaller voice appearance by his father, Donald Sutherland.
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