The Rooster, The Crocodile and the Night Sky

 

 

 

“The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky” is a tale of passion, loss, surreal comedy and explosive violence. The film is animated in a cut-out style and combines a variety of elements such as cardboard, tinfoil, paint on glass animation and super 8 film footage to create a dreamy, hand-made aesthetic.

 

The film was produced under the FRAMEWORKS scheme with the support of The Irish Film Board, The Arts Council and RTE. It will premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland on the 12th July 2008.

 

Festivals & Screenings

Directors Guild of America, Hollywood, USA, 19 September 2008

Electric Picnic - Art & Music Festival, Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland, 29-31 August 2008
www.electricpicnic.ie

Galway Film Fleadh, Galway, Ireland, 8-13 July 2008
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com

 

Padraig & Frank Kelly (the narrator)

 

Credits

Written & Directed by
Padraig Fagan

Technical Direction & Animation
Eimhin McNamara

Narrator
Frank Kelly

Additional Animation
Padraig Fagan
Orla McHardy

 

Music

“Danger Music”
Composed and Performed by Pat Fagan

Francisco Tarrega’s “Study in E Minor”
Performed by Pat Fagan

Sound Recording
Kieran Horgan

 

Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor”
Excerpts performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Gerhard Markson
Licensed from RTÉ Performing Groups

Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9 in D minor,Op.125  Choral: Finale – Presto”
Performers Gabriele Lechner, Soprano, Michael Pabst, Tenor,
Diane Elias, Mezzo and Robert Nolzer, Bass.
Performed by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Edlinger
Record Label - HNH International
Licensed from e-classical (Sweden)

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty Op. 66a”
Excerpts from “Panorama” and “Adagio - Pas d´action”,
Performed by the Philharmonia Cassovia
Conducted by Andrew Mogrelia
Record Label - HNH International
Licensed from e-classical (Sweden)

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty Op 66a” – “Apotheose”
Performed by The Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Andrew Mogrelia
Licensed from Select Music UK

Final Sound Mix
Peter Blayney, Ardmore Sound

 

Production Assistant
Éamonn O’Neill

Associate Producer
Niamh O’Donoghue

Producer
Barry O’Donoghue

Irish Film Board Short Schemes Co-ordinator
Suzanne Keane

 

Thanks to

Brendan McCarthy & Fionnuala Sweeney (The Arts Council)
Fran Byrne Keaveney & Emma Scott (IFB)
Eilish Kent & Seamus Duggan (RTÉ)

Simon Perry & Louise Ryan (IFB)

Florence Brument (Filmbase)
Alan Collins (Ardmore Sound)
Gareth Costello (RTÉ Performing Groups)

Eliana Pulvirenti, Alexandra Hudd, Kelly Parsons (Dolby Labs UK)

Special Thanks to

Pat & Bernadette Fagan
Matt & Ruth O'Donoghue

 

 

All images   © Barley Films 2008