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When Ponds Freeze Over

Canada 1998

Role: Unknown ('Other')

Genre: Animated Short Film, Independent Film

Director: Mary Lewis

Runtime: 23 minutes

Info: The film won awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival (Best Animated Film), Toronto International Film Festival (Best Canadian Short Film) and the Genie Awards (Best Live Action Short).

Summary: "One night in St. John's, a mother tells a story to her daughter of how she once fell through the ice while skating and had her life flash before her eyes. From this terrifying accident and in the panic of attempted escape from the cold water, Mary Lewis mixes various styles of animation, dramatic reconstructions and visual puns. Part home movie, part genealogy, part ethnographic record, part history of Newfoundland, this rich and multifarious film hurtles us across the 20th century through the loves and lives and lies of several generations of the Lewis family." (Jaman.com) // "Winner of the Best Canadian Short Film at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, When Ponds Freeze Over is Newfoundland filmmaker and actor Mary Lewis's expansive, heterogeneous, utterly absorbing drama of memory. One night in St. John's, a mother (Lewis) tells a story to her daughter of how she once fell through the ice while skating and had her life flash before her eyes. From this terrifying accident and in the panic of attempted escape from the cold water, Lewis mixes various styles of animation, dramatic reconstructions and visual puns. As she says at the outset, this rush of anecdotes, images and sounds illuminate, recover, preserve and revive "things I have forgotten."" (The Free Library).

Links: IMDB: When Ponds Freeze Over | Buy Movie (Downloadable Version) | CinequestOnline: When Ponds Freeze Over