Destino
Destino is an animated surrealist short film released in 2003 by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945 (five years after the release of Fantasia), 58 years before its eventual completion in 2003. The project was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, with music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Domínguez and performed by Mexican singer Dora Luz as the soundtrack. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2003.
Plot
A naked Dahlia wanders towards a statue of Chronos in a desolate landscape where she dozes into a dream (relatively speaking). Her body swallows the statue as she dances in a nighttime setting while wearing a dress. As she attempts to kiss a stoic Chronos, he melts away leaving her "sad and lonely", but she perks up upon seeing a variety of unusual statues and dandelion seeds blowing in the wind which entice her to dance up the spire she is standing on. Upon reaching the top, strange green eyeball creatures (one which has a pointing finger sticking out of its eye) disrupt Dahlia's happiness when her dress is caught on the eyeball creature's hand. The dress rips off and she retreats into a sea shell that falls from the spire and lands in a satchel/flower full of green eyeballs that are being held by a statue situated on an opposing structure. Dahlia leaps from the shell just before it lands and she begins hopping upon floating telephones that are close to Chronos' statue.
More details
| author | Salvador Dalí |
|---|---|
| director | Dominique Monféry |
| editor | Jessica Ambinder-Rojas |
| genre | animation |
| keywords | baseball bat bell tower float fly move shadow speak |
| musicBy | Armando Dominguez |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
| producer | Baker Bloodworth Roy E. Disney |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| theme | animated animated short avant-garde and experimental dance short surreal |