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Who’s your Granny?

Brown Bag Films is an Irish company described on its website as:

Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studio. Since 1994, their Dublin-based headquarters have produced cutting-edge animation for the international market, bagging numerous awards along the way. These include Oscar® nominations for Give Up Yer Aul Sins (2002), Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (2010) and Bafta and Emmy nominations for their hugely popular TV series, Octonauts (2011).

As a logical and more O’Grimmly humourous step beyond yesterday’s The Watcher in the Window, Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty is the focus of today’s Dark Sentiment.

Before we begin, I’d like to mention that Granny O’Grimm bears an amazing physical resemblance, both in appearance and mannerisms, to a woman from my past (of which, in accordance with my antiquity, there are many). Mrs. Berringer was a short, fire plug of a woman who taught Presbyterian Sunday School in my home town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, back in the day. Throughout her life, she was coiffed in a ‘do referred to as the “bee hive bubble”, and I believe, if not for that, she would have been as tall as she was wide … or thick, come to that. On her death, I can only assume she required a casket befitting her stature.

In the full flower of animation though, I remember how riveting it was to watch her walking silhouetted against a setting sun, and musing about how many times one could shoot an air rifle or slingshot through that monolith without her noticing – the goal being to open a hole big enough to fire a shelled Chestnut through.

But I digress – something we hoary ancients are prone to. The Brown Bag Films YouTube Channel describes today’s feature film thus:

Full film of the Oscar nominated “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”, directed by Nicky Phelan, produced by Brown Bag Films, and written/voiced by Kathleen O’Rourke.

In this computer animated short film, Granny O’Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified grandchild.

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 2010 Academy Awards.

By way of introduction to Granny herself, the personal information provided on her facebook page says:

Once upon a time there was a granny who dreamed of being the best granny in the whole world. But unfortunately, this granny was tormented by a lifetime of rage against the world and everyone in it.

Now be off wit’ ye! Go to full screen and soak up the Granny goodness!