Spaghetti Western style short film “Malaria” tells motion
comics to step up their game.
Written by RoboPanda
Any time you can combine Spaghetti Western sensibility
with graphic novelization and the Grim Reaper — and you can keep the whole
thing under six minutes — I’m totally there. Edson Oda and friends accomplished
this with “Malaria”, a short film about a hitman hired to kill Death to save a
little girl from malaria. Oda combined Origami, Kirigami, Time lapse, nankin
illustration, props, comics, Western movie tropes, and even fire into one
seemingly-continuous shot that feels like an animated motion comic while being
much more enthralling because the pages are real and the artists’ hands can be
seen.
It also helps that the voice acting by Antonio Moreno and
Rodrigo Araujo is excellent, as are the illustrations by João Pinheiro.
Edson Oda made Malaria to submit to the Django Unchained
Emerging Artist contest, but he missed the deadline. He still wins if you ask
us.
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeNerIa9j18
Malaria
Malaria – International title
A 2013 Brazilian production
Producer: Edson Oda, Sergio Prado, Alexandre Tommasi
Director: Edson Oda
Story: Edson Oda
Screenplay: Edson Oda
Cinematography: Sergio Prado
Music: Tiago Gamke, Rodrigo Meszaros, Christopher
Scullion
Running time: 6 minutes
Cast:
Morte - Antonio
Moreno
Fabiano – Rodrigo Araujo
Malaria, tells the
story of Fabiano, a young Mercenary who is hired to kill Death.
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