Pixels (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Patrick Jean |
| Produced by | Johnny Alves Benjamin Darras |
| Written by | Patrick Jean |
| Cinematography | Matias Boucard |
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| Country | France |
Pixels is a 2010 French animated short film written and directed by Patrick Jean. It is about an invasion of New York City by classic 8-bit video game characters, such as those from Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris, Arkanoid and others.
The film won the Annecy Crystal for Best Short Film at the 2011 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
On a Brooklyn sidewalk, a man walks over to a trash can, puts a 1980s-era television by it, and leaves. After a few seconds, the TV turns on and an 8-bit picture of a bomb appears. When its fuse runs out, the TV screen shatters, releasing a cloud of pixels (illustrated as voxels because of the three-dimensionality of the scene). The pixels fly over to Manhattan, where it releases various characters from 1980s arcade video games.
Space Invaders start to shoot downwards; on contact, the projectiles cause a delivery truck and two taxis to degenerate into pixels.
A cloud of pixels then flies down a subway station, eventually forming into Pac-Man, which eats subway trains and stations as it travels the tunnels. Its progress is shown on the subway status display, similar to the cleared-away dots on the original game screen.
Giant Tetris tiles then match up with floors of skyscrapers. One building gets a "Tetris", eliminating several mid-level floors, and the building's top falls onto the remainder of the building.
Arkanoids come and destroy the bricks of the Brooklyn Bridge's pier, resulting in the bridge collapsing.
Donkey Kong then throws a barrel from the Empire State Building and flattens a traffic light as well as breaking off a fire hydrant, from which sprays suddenly pixelated water.
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