I already wrote about Jonas Cuaron‘s short film Aningaaq, which is something of a companion piece to Gravity, which Jonas co-wrote with his father, Alfonso Cuaron, who, of course, directed Gravity.
Jonas, however, directed Aningaaq, a Greenland-set short film centered on an ice-fishing Inuit by the name of Aningaaq (Orto Ignatiussen), who happens to be the voice on the other end of the line during the scene in Gravity where Sandra Bullock‘s character manages to briefly make contact with Earth. In Gravity we only see Bullock’s side of the conversation, Aningaaq shows the other side.
The short will be made available on the DVD and Blu-ray for Gravity, but it has now come online and can be watched directly below. Here’s the synopsis from the Venice Film Festival where it played earlier this year:
Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above earth. Even though he doesn’t speak English and she doesn’t speak Greenlandic, they manage to have a conversation about dogs, babies, life and death.
