The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend is a 1974 Canadian animated short from Caroline Leaf, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend
Directed byCaroline Leaf
Produced byPierre Moretti
Written byBased on an Inuit legend
Edited byPierre Lemelin
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
1974 (Canada)
Running time
7 minutes 38 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguageInuktitut

Synopsis

Leaf worked with Inuit artists in the interpretation and design of this film which uses sand on a glass slide lit from below (sand animation) to tell this classic Inuit legend. Despite being from different species, an owl and goose marry. When the goose obeys nature and joins the other geese migrating south, the owl follows but can't keep up, and when the geese stop over on a lake, the owl is unable to float on the water and sinks to the bottom. Although the birds speak to each other in Inuktitut without subtitles, there is little doubt about what is transpiring.[1][2]

Reception

Millimeter wrote, “The film is one of exquisite delicacy and bitter sweet humor, a triumph of sincere animation in a technique far removed from traditional cel methods.”[3]

Monthly Film Bulletinwrote, “Caroline Leaf displays in this abstract love story the rich and tonal skills which she later used to effect in The Street."[4]

Awards and nominations

References
  1. Morris, Peter (1984). The Film Companion. Toronto: Irwin Publishing. p. 227. ISBN 0 7725 1505 0.
  2. Purves, Barry JC (2014). Stop-motion Animation: Frame by Frame Film-making with Puppets and Models (2nd ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 123. ISBN 978 1 4725 2190 3.
  3. Canemaker, John (May 1977). "Canada's National Film Board: What's Odd and What's New". Millimeter: 71–73.
  4. "The Owl Who Married a Goose (review)". Monthly Film Bulletin. 45 (531): 79. April 1978.
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