The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

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Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that he knows the location of the ancient city of Alto Mea where the secrets of life have been discovered, Jasper cannot resist the temptation to bring his own dead wife Amelia back. But they are captured by Armand Forgette, leader of the radical Horizontalist anti-technology movement, who is determined to reanimate his terrorist father Vasco. As lightning energises the arcane machineries of life in the floating castle of Alto Mea, Jasper must choose between having his beloved restored or seeing the government of Gothia destroyed. Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.

Also winner of the Grand Prix award at the Annecy Animation Festival, Jasper has also won the top honours at the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Best Animation at Flickerfest 2005, Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Best Animation at Toronto worldwide shorts.

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[TheFhink]

Day[9] made me do it.

And I loved evfery second of The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello!

[umk3mastr]

An amazing short film. The best Steampunk video I have ever seen.

[Realrpg]

I vaguely remember seeing this as a kid, those blood sucking creature scared the hell out of me. But thanks to nostalgia and learning about steampunk art I was brought back here and can't wait to watch it!

[TheLambdaTeam]

Hm....looks like a predecessor of Limbo :)

[GeneralHewitt]

Revolvingocelot made me watch this and i loved it! wish there was more length to it cuz i really enjoyed it!

[sqccccccccc]

@SilentShotV For SBS it is nothing; scacley a full season. Perhaps if we complained...

[SilentShotV]

@sqccccccccc Hm interesting, so it has been on hold for 6 years now? That is depressing, i would like to see the full story.

[sqccccccccc]

@SilentShotV I had the confirmation of the director that SBS put his project on hold despites praises.

[sqccccccccc]

@SilentShotV Actually they don't they have commentary, a making of, shorts and that's all.

[SilentShotV]

@sqccccccccc I believe there is a DVD available, although i am not sure how many parts are there, but it's only logical that a DVD would include 4 parts, or else it would look comical with a 20 min segment. So i think this first part was released to us for free perhaps as an advertisement.

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@SilentShotV But the other parts weren't produced were they?

[SilentShotV]

@f5yeangel5 Well to answer your question, this whole animated film is divided into 4 parts. What we have here is the first part, there are 3 others:

-Jasper Morello and the Return of Claude Belgon, thats the second voyage.

-Jasper Morello and the Ghosts of Alto Mea, thats the third voyage.

-Jasper Morello and the Ebenezer of Gothia, in a Feature Presentation, the fourth voyage.

What i think is that we have the general description of 4 parts. So theres that.