Without wishing to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it (watch it in 3D, preferably IMAX 3D. It’ll be about the only time it’s worth it), there’s a crucial point in Gravity where contact is made by radio with the Earth. In the movie, we only get to see one side of that conversation, but for the Blu-ray release, a short, seven-minute movie called Aningaaq was shot that depicted the other side of the conversation. That movie has since been shown at festivals and the reaction has been so good, that it’s been nominated for an Oscar. If it’s shortlisted, that’ll be the first time in history both a movie and its spin-off will be in the running to win in the same year.
And you can watch it below. What do you think? Oscar-worthy?
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
