
On Your Mark!
1979


18 votes
An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father.
Director
John CanemakerStatus
Released
Original Language
English
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N/A
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As father and son heart to hearts go, this is quite a poignant animation that borders on a semi-autobiographic documentary on the lives of the Cannizzaro family. With his father having died in hospital after suffering a stroke, his son still has conversations with his “man on the moon” dad as he tries to unravel the complexities of their lives. Using some quite skilfully coloured active-animating, photographs and some real-time newspaper reportage , we embark on half an hour of mafia-related tales that touch on prohibition, murder, arson and a fair amount of paternal angst as the narrator, his…
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