Hidebound

Hidebound

"Hidebound" (Icelandic: "Þröng Sýn") is a 2005 film that tells of Aron, a young man who is concerned about communications and the human situation in today’s society. He decides to conduct an experiment and observes the reactions of other people to it. Through this unique experiment or observations we meet several characters that each tells us a different story about how people respond to a new experience and how they behave under pressure.

The way Hidebound is made reflects exactly this experimental way. The film was first shot on DV where after editing, the frames where printed out. During fairs and festivals in Reykjavík, Iceland, members of the general public where offered to help in making of the film by tracing their own style the people from these print-outs. Over 1.350 people contributed with well over 16.000 traces and drawings that where scanned and used in the animation of the film. Backgrounds and other animation were created by a team of young artists in Reykjavík, lead by the directors and creators of this project, Guðmundur Arnar and Þórgnýr Thoroddsen. Hidebound is their first animated film.

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  • Hidebound — Hide bound , a. 1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; said of an animal. [1913 Webster] 2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; said of trees.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hidebound — index illiberal, parochial, rigid Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • hidebound — 1550s, from HIDE (Cf. hide) (n.1) + past tense of BIND (Cf. bind) (v.). Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of restricted by narrow attitudes is first recorded c.1600 …   Etymology dictionary

  • hidebound — *illiberal, narrow minded, narrow, intolerant, bigoted Analogous words: restricted, circumscribed, limited (see LIMIT vb) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • hidebound — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ constrained by tradition or convention; narrow minded. ORIGIN originally referring to malnourished cattle, later to emaciated human beings, hence the sense «narrow in outlook»: from HIDE(Cf. ↑hider) + BOUND(Cf. ↑bound) …   English terms dictionary

  • hidebound — [hīd′bound΄] adj. 1. having the hide tight over the bone and muscle structure of the body, as an emaciated cow 2. obstinately conservative and narrow minded …   English World dictionary

  • hidebound — [[t]ha͟ɪdbaʊnd[/t]] ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ by n (disapproval) If you describe someone or something as hidebound, you are criticizing them for having old fashioned ideas or ways of doing things and being unwilling or unlikely to change. The men are… …   English dictionary

  • hidebound — hideboundness, n. /huyd bownd /, adj. 1. narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant. 2. oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative: a hidebound philosopher. 3. (of a horse, cow, etc.) having the back and ribs …   Universalium

  • hidebound — adjective /ˈhaɪd.baʊnd/ a) Bound with the hide of an animal. Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life. b) Having… …   Wiktionary

  • hidebound — hide|bound [ˈhaıdbaund] adj having old fashioned attitudes and ideas used to show disapproval ▪ hidebound reactionaries …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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