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A young boy grieves.
When an inventor couple expects another baby, their young son Bran looks forward to becoming a big brother. But when the family suffers an unimaginable loss, their dreams of an expanded family are dashed.
Each member of the family grapples with the loss in their own way, withdrawing emotionally from one another. Left to his own devices, Bran retreats into his imagination, centered on a magical friend named Gnomly. Realizing they've abandoned Bran in their grief, his parents discover Bran's fantastical drawings and decide to build Bran that world, sparking a new journey towards healing.
Directed and written by Abigail Hing Wen with animation directed by John Aoshima, this poignant short drama is both a piercingly emotional portrait of a family navigating suffering and grief and a lush, colorful paean to the power and emotional depth of a child's imagination. Combining both live-action and animation and featuring the talents of Tony-winning actor Lea Salonga, it tells its story with an emotional clarity and directness that reflects the perspective of the child at its center, whose imagination inspires the family to come together in a stunningly realized journey of collective creativity and healing.
We meet Bran, his family and their world at the top of the film, quickly but vividly established as full of clever inventions, bright flowers and unbridled affection. But the cheerful colors and lighting quickly darken when the family is beset with loss, which casts a shadow of depression and grief over the once happy home. Each member retreats into their own world, and Bran is at odds, dealing with emotions he can barely understand. He retreats into his imagination, making a fanciful world for himself and his friend Gnomly.
Their world is brought to life with beautifully vivid, lyrical animated sequences that capture the magic of their world, aided by a plaintive, expressive musical score that deftly mirrors the film's emotional journey overall. Young actor Egan Xander plays Bran with a lovely understatement and sympathy, and with Salonga and actor Robert Palmer Watkins as his parents, they form a believably connected yet struggling family unit. But when his parents discover Bran's imaginative world, they come out of their isolation to build Bran's world as a virtual-reality one. In doing so, they come out of grief together.
THE VALE: ORIGINS was conceived as a prequel to the writer-director's New York Times-bestselling novel THE VALE, which explores a young child's adventures in the realm of the same name. But the film works on the standalone level, focused on its journey of healing and imagination. Grief is often said to be love that has no place to go, but THE VALE: ORIGINS builds that place in a collective act of familial recovery, togetherness and love. Its spirit is as richly charming as the Vale itelf, bravely facing difficult feelings but holding onto optimism and hope. It's a tribute to dreamers of all ages and stripes out there, who harness both heart and imagination to comfort and delight the eternal inner child in all of us.
THE VALE: ORIGINS. Courtesy of Abigail Hing Wen at https://abigailhingwen.com.
When an inventor couple expects another baby, their young son Bran looks forward to becoming a big brother. But when the family suffers an unimaginable loss, their dreams of an expanded family are dashed.
Each member of the family grapples with the loss in their own way, withdrawing emotionally from one another. Left to his own devices, Bran retreats into his imagination, centered on a magical friend named Gnomly. Realizing they've abandoned Bran in their grief, his parents discover Bran's fantastical drawings and decide to build Bran that world, sparking a new journey towards healing.
Directed and written by Abigail Hing Wen with animation directed by John Aoshima, this poignant short drama is both a piercingly emotional portrait of a family navigating suffering and grief and a lush, colorful paean to the power and emotional depth of a child's imagination. Combining both live-action and animation and featuring the talents of Tony-winning actor Lea Salonga, it tells its story with an emotional clarity and directness that reflects the perspective of the child at its center, whose imagination inspires the family to come together in a stunningly realized journey of collective creativity and healing.
We meet Bran, his family and their world at the top of the film, quickly but vividly established as full of clever inventions, bright flowers and unbridled affection. But the cheerful colors and lighting quickly darken when the family is beset with loss, which casts a shadow of depression and grief over the once happy home. Each member retreats into their own world, and Bran is at odds, dealing with emotions he can barely understand. He retreats into his imagination, making a fanciful world for himself and his friend Gnomly.
Their world is brought to life with beautifully vivid, lyrical animated sequences that capture the magic of their world, aided by a plaintive, expressive musical score that deftly mirrors the film's emotional journey overall. Young actor Egan Xander plays Bran with a lovely understatement and sympathy, and with Salonga and actor Robert Palmer Watkins as his parents, they form a believably connected yet struggling family unit. But when his parents discover Bran's imaginative world, they come out of their isolation to build Bran's world as a virtual-reality one. In doing so, they come out of grief together.
THE VALE: ORIGINS was conceived as a prequel to the writer-director's New York Times-bestselling novel THE VALE, which explores a young child's adventures in the realm of the same name. But the film works on the standalone level, focused on its journey of healing and imagination. Grief is often said to be love that has no place to go, but THE VALE: ORIGINS builds that place in a collective act of familial recovery, togetherness and love. Its spirit is as richly charming as the Vale itelf, bravely facing difficult feelings but holding onto optimism and hope. It's a tribute to dreamers of all ages and stripes out there, who harness both heart and imagination to comfort and delight the eternal inner child in all of us.
THE VALE: ORIGINS. Courtesy of Abigail Hing Wen at https://abigailhingwen.com.
