''Scale'' is a 2022 French animated short film directed by Joseph Pierce. The film debuted at the 2022 Critics Week at

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and was produced by Melocoton Films (France), in co-production with Bridge Way Films (UK), Endorfilm (Czech Republic) and Ozù Productions (Belgium). ''Scale'' has received several nominations and awards, including a nomination for Best British Short Film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards and winning the Golden Zagreb Award at the 2023 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films. In August 2022, the film won the Oscar-qualifying award for Best Animation at HollyShorts Film Festival, and became eligible for the 96th Academy Awards. The film is also in the official selection for the 2024

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Background

The film is an adaptation of the homonymous novella written by

Will Self William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Se ...

as part of the short story collection ''Grey Area'' (1994). Pierce, who read the story as a teenager, felt compelled to adapt the story into an ambitious animated short.

Cast

* Sam Spruell as Will * Zahra Ahmadi as Eden * Evelyn Neghabian Pierce as Edith * Minou Neghabian Pierce as Lyla

Plot

An opium-addicted father obsessed with the UK highway system narrates his descent into crippling addiction and isolation, and how he lost his sense of scale.

Reception

Since its release, the film has been selected for various festivals around the world:

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 20223520, Scale
Official Trailer
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