Mark Osborne's MORE

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Nominated for an Academy Award and awarded the Best Short Film at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, MORE is a stop-motion mixed-media short film written and directed by Mark Osborne, the co-director of Kung Fu Panda and the upcoming animated feature film based on the iconic book The Little Prince.

MORE tells the story of an old, tired inventor as he struggles through joyless life in a drab and passionless society, leading the same cold and colorless existence accepted by the identical drones around him. At once tortured and inspired by his dreaming of and yearning for his younger carefree days, he struggles to finish the invention he hopes will give his life meaning and worth. His world, and the world of those around him, is transformed when his secret invention is completed. However, his subsequent success does not come without sacrifice. The inventor realizes that the true essence of his inspiration cannot be manufactured...

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CREDITS:

Writer and Director: Mark Osborne

Producer: Steve Kalafer

Co-producers: Debra Callabresi, Kelly Moren

Line Producer: Shannon Lowry

70mm Prod. Supervision: IMAGICA USA Inc., Kelly Moren

Production Designer: Rick Orner

Puppet Construction: David J. Candelaria

Stop-Motion Animators: Mark Osborne, David J. Candelaria, Nick Peterson

Set & Model Builders: David J. Candelaria, Nick Peterson, Joe Schmidt

Cinematography and Camera Department: Keith Lowry

Cel Animation Designer: Lorelei Pepi

Cel Animation Director: Jenny Walsh

Cel Animators: Lea Zagury, Rick Potts, Marcos Magalhães

Post-Prod. Supervisors: Debra Callabresi, Kelly Moren, IMAGICA USA Inc., RPG

Digital Effects Supervisor: Debra Callabresi

Digital Art & Effects: Ben Matsunaga, Kelly Moren

Sound Effects Editor: Jeremy Pitts

Re-Recording Mixer: Peter Carlstedt

Negative Cut: Ron Johnson

Color and Prints: Consolidated Film Industries

Music: New Order, "Elegia." Written and produced by New Order,
Engineered by Michael Johnson, Distributed by Warner
Bros. Records, Inc. © 1985 Qwest Records.

Additional End Credit Music: Ben Decter

Production Services: California Institute of the Arts, Consolidated Film

Production Services Donated by:
California Institute of the Arts, Consolidated Film Industries, Dream Quest Images, KODAK Motion Picture Film, Graphic Films, Image G, IMAGICA USA Inc., Iwerks Entertainment, RPG Productions Inc., Swell Productions

Special Thanks To:
Mario Allen, Tom Attencio, Tom Barron, Bob Beitcher, Chris Blum, Jamie Caliri, Kevin Clark, Maureen Claypool, Jon Corfina, Edwin Escalante, Larry Fagan, Rick Gordon,
Cathy Hair, Wendy Jackson-Hall, Ron Johnson, Tim Knapp, Dick Larson, Alec Lorimore, Alan Markowitz, James Manke, Katherine Mervine, Andrew Millstein, Mike Mitchell,
Paloma Navarette, Ammiel Najar, Paul Novoros, Jeff Osborne, Kent Osborne, Paulette Osborne, Julie OʼNeil, Andrew Oran, Dave Palomaren, Jose Parra, Sarah Peterson, Brian Peterson, Sean Phillips, Christopher Reyna, Tim Sassoon, Scott Shepley, Susan Simpson,
Jonathan Silsby, Ron Wangler, Miriam Yagi
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As I know that Mark Osborne occasionally reads these comments, I'd just like to say how much I love this short film. I rewatch it every couple of years and always seem to take away something different from it. Thanks again for this beautiful piece of art.

simonadams
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This movie is basically the reason why I decided becoming a filmmaker.

Brixhousedotde
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It was actually a change we had to make due to rights issues with the New Order song (I wasn't allowed to use it for any credit sequence). My buddy Ben Decter did an amazing job creating original music for the end credits that really elevated the emotional impact of the films ending. So what started as a compromise ended up improving the film! Hats off to Ben Decter!

HappyProductCorp
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Today, the day when Apple announced Vision Pro, it has became way more relevant than ever. Amazing how ART can predict the future.

kalmanp
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The music is what really makes this film powerful imo

Jigsaw
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In my opinion one of the best short videos of the pre-Youtube age. Will live in my memory til' I die. Respect.

AndrewDale
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anyone else remember seeing this mixed with kenna's "hellbent" sometime in the early 2000's? possibly on adult swim?

lonewoulf
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Robin William's life comes to mind when I watch this video. He gave out so much of his happiness to others, that in the end there was none left for himself.

myantro
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Made me cry a bit. I was 18 when I first saw this and it changed my out look on life.

It showed me that if you gain it all, become successful but forget what got you there, you'll lose the fire inside ur soul

themollymachine
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This feels so prophetic now that we see all these videos of people wearing Apple Visions in public.

MrDavidNorris
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The best short film I've ever seen. I still feel the same deep depression after watching it for the first time.

MohamedAbuGazia
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this moved the heck outta me when I saw it in 1999. I still come back and rewatch it from time to time. brilliant stuff.

theomoore
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Watching this short film was a core memory for me. I have no clue how I came across it. Like many others, I stumbled onto it one night as a young child in the early days of The Internet. I wasn't sure what I was watching. All I know is that I thought the animation was cool, but the world looked so drab and cold and that made me sad. I didn't understand why.

Fast-forward some 20+ years later, this song comes up in my shuffled music playlist. Immediately, all the memories come flooding back. The striking visuals and the melancholy music had stuck with me all these years without realizing it. I remembered the lil' stop-motion humanoid with his goggles and his ~furnace projector gut~. I looked up Elegia and saw reddit comments that brought me right to this video.

This song brings me to tears every time I listen to it. The outro complements it fantastically as well. The whole production elicits such strong emotions. It's thought-provoking long after the 6 minutes are over. And it hits that much harder now as an adult, watching it with jaded eyes. I've lived this story firsthand (albeit without the fame and fortune). I've felt those same creative life forces sucked out of me, working mundane desk jobs. MORE tells a cautionary tale. One that I was sadly too young to appreciate at first, but now I can relate all too well.

I'm glad I found this film again. And I don't throw this term around very often, but it's a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. I can't think of any other piece of multimedia that assaults me with a barrage of feelings all the way through like MORE does. It makes me feel numb, terrified, nihilistic, elated, and optimistic all within quick succession. It makes me crave *more* out of life. This is what art is all about.

Jigglypoof
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I have been searching for this for 15 years! Thank you so much for uploading it. I remember seeing it on Sci Fi loooong ago as a kid, and fell in love with it.

LadyGreyFox
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This video has been stuck in my conscious since the first day I watched it.

doggystis
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It's 2023 and this still matters so much to me. Everytime I need to remind myself about my purpose in life, I come back to watch It.

raissaalmoedodeassis
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I think the thing that I take from this the most is the end. The narrator has made this product 'Bliss' for himself and everyone else to cope through every day living to make it bearable and enjoyable, but the kids at the end don't need this illusion, life is already bliss for them.

GeorgeAlone
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Being a consumer in a consumer society isn’t going to make you happy. Creating anything, children, a home, an invention, a painting, a song makes you more alive and happier then anything you can buy. Also, family - the workers all live alone, the only connection you saw were the kids playing together . Don’t forget to play, to see friends and family and to create your own life from scratch . That is the most rewarding . Also, the saddest thing in this short is the fact that he is able to share his happiness with the world but finds he gave it all away and didn’t keep anything for himself . That always stuck with me. I remember watching this in the 90’s too. Keep your inner child happy if you can. All the workers have deprived their inner child because their lives are so dreary. It’s important to make others happy but keep a little for yourself too. The main character is empty but that is a vision in some art of hell. It’s depressing but luckily real live isn’t so finite. The character in real life could walk out of the building and sit at the playground and watch the kids play. He could quit . He could take a vacation . He could paint a mural on the wall of his vision and as the other workers to o he same . As a kid watching these things in the 90s I would get so depressed, but you can use your imagination too and imagine that he makes a different choice at the end. Maybe he can fill himself back up again. I hope we all can. God bless us all.

porkchoppeaches
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As best as I can tell, and I could be wrong. This is about finding happiness within. The inventor worked a dead end job for the system, all the while dreaming of happiness. He thought if I could capture it and sell it; I could be rich, I could be the boss and I would be happy. So he invested his life and happiness into making the product, he became the boss, and rich by creating the illusions of happiness. At the end he found the price he paid was his happiness. His invention and being rich and powerful did not make him happy. It's about the illusion we as adults buy into that makes us think if we could only be richer, and be the boss, be powerful we will be happy. And once we have achieved it, then we realize that we traded our happiness to get it. But hey that is just my take on it

tzokaie
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I always thought the Kenna music video for 'Hellbent' was made for the song because it fit so well. This just blew my mind that it was it's own short film

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