Showa Shinzan
Die Geburt eines Berges
The Second World War is raging and Yasuko decides to go and live with her grandparents in Hokkaido in northern Japan. When the nearby volcano, Usu, erupts on the island, Yasukos grandfather decides to document its activity. As the realities of war creep to the remote village, the volcano continues to spit out stones, lava and smoke up into the sky. When Yasuko sees her grandfathers drawings, she begins to appreciate the scale of this incredible natural occurrence. For the first time, she realises that she has witnessed nothing less than the birth of a new mountain. In her film, Alison Reiko Loader employs a mixture of 3-D computer animation, documentary archive footage and pen-and-ink drawings.
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National Film Board of Canada