Wednesday, December 14, 2022

'Aningaaq' (Gravity)

I rewatched one of my favorite movies, 2013's "Gravity," directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. I didn't realize this short film was included on the DVD. One of the most hallucinatory moments of the film comes when desperate Mission Specialist Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) manages to enter the still-functional Chinese spacecraft and tries to use its radio to reach Houston Mission Control, but reaches someone else instead. That someone is Aningaaq:
Aningaaq presents the other side of that conversation, introducing Orto Ignatiussen as the title character, an Inuit fisherman on a remote fjord in Greenland, where the short was shot on location. The connection to Gravity is seamless, as Bullock's dialogue is included in full here and Aningaaq's side is heard in the film. The short reinforces the impact of the scene in Gravity, going far beyond a tie-in gimmick and adding to the artistry of the movie in a unique way.

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