For my fourth (and likely final) post concerning master artists contributing to the movie-making industry directly, I have chosen perhaps the most unlikely collaboration of all. Destino is a short film that was created by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali, the very famous Spanish surrealist painter. The movie has a very interesting backstory. It was originally envisioned in 1945, and Dali worked on the concept, but with the coming of WWII, Walt didn't think that they had the money to take the risk of making such an unusual film. So, it was shelved for 58 years, upon which Roy Disney found it. He decided to move ahead with the film, and make it a six and a half minute short. What resulted is one of the most odd, yet visually striking films, there has ever been. It tells the story of the god Chronos, who is often the personification of time, and his doomed love for a mortal woman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 2003.
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