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Going West
Television (Full Length) – 2009
In 1992 Maurice Gee's autobiographical novel Going West scooped major national and international literary awards. This beautiful, handcrafted short film, commissioned by the New Zealand Book Council (now Read NZ/Te Pou Muramura) emulated this success; it won multiple awards. As Gee's lead character Jack Skeats describes his train journey from Auckland's western suburbs into the CBD, the story's pages cut up into delicate depictions of each passing landmark. London-based brother and sister Martin and Line Andersen spent eight months making it. Going West became a YouTube hit, netting over a million views.
This is what eight months of work with a 10A scalpel blade looks like.– Comment on Going West, Booooooom Animation blog, 1 December 2009
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