Vincent
Young Vincent Malloy is dreaming about becoming the same as his idol Vincent Prince and gets lost in the terrible dreams which are ailing his mother. Vincent is an American short horror film form 1982, written, pitched and directed by Tim Burton and produced by Rick Heinrichs. It is the second Disney horror film.
The film is narrated by Vincent Prince, Tim Burton’s lifelong idol and inspiration. Burton is an American Film director, producer, writer and artist. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as “Beetlejuice” (1988), “Edward Scissorhands” (1990), “Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993), “Batman” (1989), “Batman Returns” (1992), “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005), “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), etc. Despite his controversial artistic spirit and independent figure as a film director, he helped some of the biggest blockbusters in Hollywood history. Thanks to his roots in drawing and animation, Burton created boldly pitched films during his career which reflected the gothic horror influence of his youth.
The movie is recommended by an animator Andrej Gregorčok.
Andrej Gregorčok is a PhD studies graduate from the Academy of Performing Arts, Animation Department in Bratislava. He debuted in 2007 with his authorial short animated film “Ola Jalallo” which was created as a student’s assignment. Other student’s films followed, “Poznanie” (“Recognition”, 2009) and “Frankenhead” (2011), which had finished on the 3rd place in the category Films under 5 minutes at Azyl Film Festival Bratislava. His film “Lighta” (2012) has been awarded the best animated film at Áčko Festival and gained Special Mention Award at Early Melons student’s film festival. After finishing his Master’s degree, he worked as a production assistant of short animated films “Fongopolis” (2013) and “Sneh” (“Snow”, 2013).
As a techinical supervisor of animation he cooperated on the production of the feature documentary “Felvidék: Horná zem” (“Felvidek: Upper land”, 2014). He has been working in Fool Moon production studio since 2012. He was a production assistant and animator of a successful children’s series “Mimi & Líza” (2012 – 2015) of the director Katarína Kerekesová. He also worked as an animation director, 3D CGI layout artist and animator of the TV series “Websterovci” (“The Websters”), directed also by Katarína Kerekesová (since 2015).
You will find more about Andrej’s work at his vimeo channel.