''A Single Life'' is a 2014 Dutch

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film directed by Marieke Blaauw,

Joris Oprins Joris Oprins (born 1980, Tilburg) is an animation director. He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He graduated in 2003. In 2005 he worked as an animator on the stop motion children series Miffy at studio Pedri in Ankeveen. ...

and

Job Roggeveen Job Roggeveen (born 1979 in Geldrop) is a film director and writer. He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He graduated in 2003. In 2007 he co-founded animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke together with Joris Oprins and ...

, from Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards.

Plot

The film is about a young woman, R Kelly, who receives a mysterious

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and discovers that she can travel through time to different stages of her life when different parts of the record are played. The film does not feature any spoken dialogue though it does incorporate the titular song "A Single Life" by

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featuring Pien Feith. According to Oprins, the film took three months to make and was originally inspired by an incident where a record skipped while being played. The duration of the film was limited because the film was originally intended to be screened at movie theaters prior to the showing of feature-length films.

Cast

* Pien Feith as (voice)

References

External links

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''A Single Life'' at Job, Joris & Marieke
2014 films 2014 animated short films 2014 comedy films Dutch comedy films Dutch animated short films 2010s English-language films English-language Dutch films {{2010s-short-animation-film-stub