Nominated for an Academy Award and awarded the Best Short Film at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, 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...
-This film is presented outside the regular festival program.-
- Year6
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMark Osborne
Nominated for an Academy Award and awarded the Best Short Film at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, 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...
-This film is presented outside the regular festival program.-
- Year6
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMark Osborne