Bead Game

Bead Game
Directed byIshu Patel
Produced byDerek Lamb (executive producer)
Music byJnan Prakash Ghosh
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Bead Game (French: Histoire de perles) is a 1977 animated short film by Ishu Patel, created by arranging beads into the shapes of real and mythical creatures, who absorb and devour one another, thus, evolving into scenes of modern human warfare. Jnan Prakash Ghosh provides music for the 5 min 35 second film, which was produced at the National Film Board of Canada.[1][2]

The film's technique was inspired by the beadwork of Inuit women. The increasing aggression shown by the creatures in Bead Game was intended as a cautionary tale about human hostility and nuclear weapons.[3] Patel made the film in response to India's development of nuclear weapons.[4]

  1. ^ "Bead Game". Collection page. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  2. ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8020-3512-7.
  3. ^ Julius Wiedmann; Cesar Coelho; Marcos Magalhaes (November 2004). Animation Now!. Taschen. p. 201. ISBN 978-3-8228-2588-4. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's who in animated cartoons : an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary animators. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. p. 278. ISBN 978-1557836717. Retrieved 31 May 2017.