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Anna & Bella (1984)

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Oh My Darling... as it aired on Jokebook.

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Artist Spotlight: Borge Ring (3/3)

Run of the Mill (1999)

Borge’s last independent productions were productions for children’s entertainment and children’s awareness. His last short Run of the Mill detailed the effects of early drug use on children and how it effects their parents and the world around them - all animated and detailed in Borge’s soft style. Borge also successfully created and developed a television series of twenty-six five-minute shorts, “Anton”. Both “Anton” and Run of the Mill are loosely based on experiences and his own concerns over drugs while raising his daughter Anne-Mieke Bovelett-Ring. Both productions were assisted by A. Film, while Borge only developed and storyboarded all the episodes for “Anton”.

Borge with his wife Joanika still talk to aspiring animation artists and professionals, but unfortunately his retirement from animation isn’t as calming as one would think. In 2012 days before receiving the Winsor McCay Award from the Annie Awards, Borge’s farm house burned down and he lost all his possessions - including original artwork and his Oscar. Anne-Mieke organized a fundraising website which quickly got support from artists from around the world. Borge’s films themselves are unknown if they’re safely preserved or if they too were lost in the fire, although his films are available to find online they are in very low quality. Nonetheless Borge is an influence to Danish animators as well as other animation names who have met and worked with him, in 2007 The Animation Society in Denmark created the Borge Ring Award that is prized to local animation artists every year.

A Danish television interview with Borge in 1985 after his Oscar win (click for subtitles)

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Artist Spotlight: Borge Ring (2/3)

Anna and Bella (1985)

Borge has written and illustrated comic strips and developed unsold television properties, but the highlights of his career and still on late in his life have been his original shorts. Oh My Darling was Borge’s first independent short already earning him considerable acclaim. It shared the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Jury Prize with John Hubley’s Doonsberry Special, and both earned Oscar nominations for animated short which they both lost. Anna and Bella was Borge’s side-project while he was starting animation work on Valhalla and that second film earned him even greater acclaim, including winning the Oscar for animated short.

Both Oh My Darling and Anna and Bella both use Borge’s signature rough Xerox style to illustrate the growth and puberty of young girls. Whereas Oh My Darling is set from the perspective of the girl’s parents and their reactions when their daughter finds love, Anna and Bella themselves as elderly women are looking back on their lives through photographs. Both films are emotionally resonating and charming regardless of either film’s perspective.

Oh My Darling (1977)

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Artist Spotlight: Borge Ring (1/3)

Fan-made Borge Ring animation reel, by Magnil

One of the oldest living animation artists in the world today, Danish animator Borge Ring recently published his memoirs that have been released and translated for English in his native country. Aside from his memoirs though, not much has been shared or known about Borge online. Despite being hidden from much of the animation spotlight for most of his life and only producing three independent short films, Borge actually has been a prominent and recognized animator in Europe with almost six decades of animation experience before retiring in the mid-2000′s.

Borge started his career in the late 1940′s working at a studio in Copenhagen with a life-long appreciation of detailed artistry and jazz music. Borge used his early status to encourage his other animators and invite former Disney director David Hand to teach the artists of his artistic techniques from working in America. Borge and David were pushing to produce an animated version of Robin Hood at the Danish studios but the plans fell through because David Hand’s salary demands were too expensive. Borge, as a freelance artist from that point on, has had in hand in many animated features despite not making their Robin Hood movie. His film credits include several of the original Asterix movies, The Magic Voyage, We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story, and Valhalla.