Wat`s Pig

Wat`s Pig (1996)

Rating: 7.1/10
Runtime: 11 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Color: Color
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Director: Peter Lord
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Original Music: Andy Price

Description: "Two babes from a fairy tale kingdom are separated in a bungled kidnapping attempt. Wat, the hero of our story, is dropped in the woods by the kidnapper and is raised in the wild by a pig. Flash years forward, and we see side-by-side comparisons of the twins' lives: the comfort and excess of the King, contrasted with the idyllic simplicity of Wat's life with his pig on a feudal fief. Will Wat ever learn his true identity?" (atom.com)

The concept of split-screen technique "was in there right from the start. I think it is interesting as a way with story telling, not just as a technical exercise. I think about Paul Driessen's film, The End of the World in Four Seasons, a similar storytelling approach. There was a time when I thought of doing more of the film in split-screen, not the whole film, but more with split-screen, but that [idea] slowly eroded as I worked on the storyboards. I felt it would become too 'tricksy.' It was, in a way, an intellectual challenge, but technically, we went about it in the most quaint, old-fashioned way imaginable, with film opticals at the end. Exactly why we didn't composite it electronically, I'm not quite sure. I wish we had, it would have been a lot easier!. It's funny, the way we work, it's like we were in a time warp, really. It's like making a film 20 years ago or something. We didn't assemble two halves of the image until the end, so I didn't really know how things would work out accurately until the end." (Peter Lord on awn.com)

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