Destino (2003)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Dominique Monfery

Writers:

Salvador Dalí (story) &
John Hench (story)

Genre:

Animation | Short

Plot:

To a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off...

Plot Keywords:

Baseball | Bicycle | Shadow | Ant | Love

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination

Directed by
Dominique Monfery

Writing credits
Salvador Dalí		(story) &
John Hench		(story)

Produced by
Baker Bloodworth	....	producer
Dave Bossert	....	associate producer (as David A. Bossert)
Roy Edward Disney	....	executive producer

Film Editing by
Jessica Ambinder-Rojas

Production Design by
Thierry Fournier

Production Management
Coralie Cudot-Lissillour	....	production manager
Jeff Deckman	....	assistant production manager: pre-production
Fred Herrman	....	assistant production manager
Katie Hooten	....	assistant production manager
Timothy Jason Smith	....	production manager

Art Department
Cent Alantar	....	visual development
Sylvie Bennett-Fauqué	....	artistic supervisor: color models
Olivier Besson	....	artistic supervisor: background
Karen Comella	....	color models
Jeroen Dejonckheere	....	artistic supervisor: clean-up
Bérangère Frésard	....	color models
Nathan Hughes	....	assistant background artist
Ivan Kassabov	....	digital production
Nicoletta Marcialis	....	digital production
Zoltan Maros	....	visual development (as Zoltàn Maros)
Ann Sorensen	....	color models

Sound Department
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Robert Bagley	....	digital imaging coordinator
Thierry Chaffoin	....	artistic supervisor: effects

Animation Department
David Berthier	....	animator
Dominique Monfery	....	animator
Carin-Anne Strohmaier	....	animation editor
Yoshimichi Tamura	....	animator

Editorial Department
François Desnus	....	editorial: Paris
Cory Hansen	....	post-production coordinator
Gregory F. Plotts	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Armando Domínguez	....	composer: song "Destino"
Mark Green	....	music editor
Tom MacDougall	....	music production supervisor
Shawn Murphy	....	scoring mixer
Michael Starobin	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Holly E. Bratton	....	CAPS supervisor
Hortensia Casagran	....	CAPS supervisor
Donald W. Ernst	....	artistic story supervisor
Bill Fadness	....	CAPS supervisor (as William Fadness)
Timothy Gales	....	CAPS supervisor
Mark Henley	....	caps supervisor: scene planning (as Mark A. Henley)
Teri McDonald	....	head final checker
Brenda McGirl	....	CAPS supervisor
Christophe Meslin	....	technology supervisor
Robyn Roberts	....	CAPS supervisor (as Robyn L. Roberts)
James 'J.R.' Russell	....	CAPS supervisor (as James Russell)
Rafaël Vicente	....	artistic supervisor: scene planning
Barbara Wiles	....	CAPS supervisor

Thanks
Robert Bagley	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Feature Animation
• Walt Disney Pictures

Distributors

• Buena Vista Pictures (worldwide)

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild sensuality.

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

France | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG

Company:

Walt Disney Feature Animation

Trivia:

Disney vice-chairman Roy Edward Disney was inspired to re-start production on the film after producing Fantasia/2000 (1999), which mentioned the aborted project.

Movie Connections:

References L'âge d'or (1930)

Soundtrack:

Destino

Just a simple love story as only Salvador Dali could tell it

I spent the day yesterday in Philadelphia Museum of Art. One of the reasons I went there was to try to see the Salvador Dali's exhibitions but the tickets have been sold until the end of April. While in the museum, I was able to see two films that Dali was a big part of. In the video Gallery of the museum, two intriguing projects have been running together in the continuous loop, the early "Un Chien Andalou" (17 minutes) and the recently released, animated Destino (6 minutes). This was the first viewing for me. I kept coming back to the gallery for few more times and I never was tired of both short films.

What would've happened if Salvador Dali and Walt Disney had decided to work together on a project? The answer is "Destino" , the 6 minutes, 40 seconds long animated film based on a Mexican love ballad entitled "Destino". Dali and Disney admired each other's work and their meeting at a dinner party in 1945, inspired the idea for collaboration. Although, the film was abandoned in 1946 due to the economic problems created by WWII, Dali's storyboards, sketches, and paintings were saved. Work began on Destino in May 2001 and in June 2003, "Destino" premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Set to the Mexican ballad, the idea behind the film was described by Disney as "just a simple love story - boy meets girl". Dali called it "a magical exposition on the problem of life in the labyrinth of time". The end result is a tender, beautiful, sad, and charming love story as only Dali could imagine it, complete with the images as only he could create by the power of his imagination - melting clocks, tuxedo-clad eyeballs without faces, ballerinas, ants that turn into bicycles, and surprising baseballs.