The Tempest

Date: 2008
Posted by: Pettfej
Credits: Written and animated by Peter Olsson. All music credits given at the end of the video
Duration: 9.30

The basic narrative of The Tempest animated in Flash to make it look like a rudimentary computer game (Ferdinand is tested by having to visit the Pit of Doom), with text, graphics and MIDI electronic music (including themes from Super Mario, Monkey Island etc). Shakespeare’s words do not feature.

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Fathom

Date: 2007
Posted by: sparkshorts
Credits: Created by sparkshorts
Cast: none
Duration: 1.30

Haunting and unusual animation film which interpets Ariel’s ‘Full fathom five’ song from The Tempest (Act 1 Scene 2) without reciting the words at all. Instead we see a changing hand over which objects and tiny animated figures play, while we hear sea noises, children cries, a burst of Edith Piaf and some heavy breathing, the latter echoing the use of such sounds in Derek Jarman’s feature film The Tempest.

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