Stowaway

Clandestino

Abi Feijó

Portugal, Canada, 2000, 7 min.
Animated film

Director: Abi Feijó
Producer: Abi Feijó, Davide Freitas, Marcel Jean, Pierre Hébert
Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, Lda, Office National du Film du Canada
Animation: Abi Feijó, Regina Pessoa

On a cold and dreary Christmas Eve, in a gloomy fogbound seaport, docks a tired old freighter. Deep in its hold, a stowaway is hiding. The crew members leave the ship and go their separate ways. After nightfall, the stowaway tries to make it to dry land by sliding down a rope, but he is paralyzed with fear. Using sand animation on under lit glass plates, Stowaway is adapted from a story by the Portuguese writer José Rodrigues Miguéis. Profoundly melancholy in its expressive and richly textured imagery., the film is about one man's agonizing struggle for freedom.

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