The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain | Award-Winning Short Film

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9 ай бұрын

In Grants, New Mexico there is a small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can't feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town, challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.
A Student Academy Award Finalist, this German short is a big-hearted and romantic tall tale set on the vanishing American frontier.
A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films.
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The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain
A film by Eugen Merher
www.eugen-merher.com/
/ eugendirector
" The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain is an ambitious and big-hearted story that admirably straddles the tricky divide between realism and fantasy. It aims for big emotional swells, and largely earns them, telling a nostalgia-tinted tale that speaks to the larger-than-life sensibility that is core to America’s self-conception.
The film, true to form as a tall tale, starts with a narrator. 16-year-old Annie is new to town and though she comes to play a leading role in the story, first she introduces us to Chester, our titular boy. “He was not the prettiest, nor the smartest guy in town,” she intones gravely, “but he sure as hell was the toughest. For when he was a young boy, he saw something so deeply disturbing, so gut-wrenching, that he stopped feeling anything.” - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi
READ THE FULL REVIEW: www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/0...
CREDITS
MAIN CAST
Catfish Jean (Chester)
Delilah Napier (Annie)
Dylan Sprayberry (Nelson)
DJ “Dawda” Jallow Jr. (young Chester)
CREW
Mortimer Hochberg (cinematography)
Ryan Bernard Tymenski (casting director)
Milo Koleske (costume design)
Alexander Antholzner (production design)
Sarah Heidelberger (sfx make up & hair)
Ernst Lattik, Maximilian Merth (editing)
Alexander Wolf David (music composition)
Floyd Fürstenau, Paul Powaljaew, Robin Harff (sound design)
Marc Angele, Deli Creative Collective, zornshot GmbH (VFX)
Manuel Portschy (color grading)
Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.

Пікірлер: 45

@jasondhi 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking out _The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Any Pain_ -- I'm the curator who selected the film for Short of the Week. Let me know what you think and if you have any questions, and maybe we can get the director, Eugen to chime in too.

@EugenMerher 8 ай бұрын

I'll gladly answer any questions :)

@cp6animation392 8 ай бұрын

Was the a specific motive to go for 4:3 aspect ratio

@ScoobyandShaggy5554 8 ай бұрын

@@EugenMerherWhat caméra did you use and how much was the production, and what was the inspiration behind this one?

@asallen 8 ай бұрын

@@EugenMerher Love the film! How was your experience making the film at Filmakademie?

@sydburd 8 ай бұрын

aaaaand he doesn't answer

@masterrodham2694 8 ай бұрын

Iv been whatching short films for a while now and iv never been this impressed

@jr2no160 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant story telling to anyone with a deep humane perspective on life.😊👍🏾💯

@EidellaVanilla 8 ай бұрын

This was so good! The scene where He kisses His mom on the forehead made me sob 😭

@ilyayamrochunchaji6987 8 ай бұрын

Was nice like an old school book

@ScoobyandShaggy5554 8 ай бұрын

Sure started off good in the first minute; that’s how you do it

@SheaIslandFilms 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Such a moving short with a gritty feel! The color palette was excellent.

@bubermarez1453 9 күн бұрын

I live in this town. Thunderbird lanes is open to this day

@dertigerbauch 8 ай бұрын

One of the best shorts here, a wonderful feelgood short ❤

@ScoobyandShaggy5554 8 ай бұрын

So rare to watch a good short imo and this was good first minute in! Old school 80s filmmaking too! Love it! There was another good short on here that got deleted what a shame, but this was fantastic

@wayneclarke1727 8 ай бұрын

Whats the best words of this simple masterpiece? You tell me.. So glad to find you... Who is the big man? He holds the spirit of a chosen vehicle of message?... Quiet wonder... Well done...

@catfishjean11 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. I really appreciate the compliment.

@RidingwithStymie 8 ай бұрын

This is excellent. A unique story very well executed.

@imDonDiestro 3 ай бұрын

This was great. Definitely can see this being a feature film.

@MahdiKian 8 ай бұрын

this movie is amazing everthing is awesome

@life.esoteric 4 ай бұрын

loved every bit of it!!

@aftermarketproductions9391 7 ай бұрын

Very good

@lizhernandez7341 8 ай бұрын

Nice job all around.

@bparaguay 8 ай бұрын

Rachacuca brought me here!!! 🤘🥰

@gabrielebradley 8 ай бұрын

great cinematography here

@EvonneLindiwe 8 ай бұрын

Love this

@mr.lincoln5154 8 ай бұрын

Why did everyone in that town wear the same clothes everyday? The title of this short should've been the town that couldn't smell funk.😆

@cutewanderinghedgehog5099 8 ай бұрын

i love this

@ayeeffkay 8 ай бұрын

I’m only 6:12 into this short and already wishing for a entire season or movie 🍿❤ Goes to show, a great story or show doesn’t always need cgi and visual effects.. 🫵👽 you better not hit me with a “dust ending”😂.