Lunch Club! Watch The Short Companion For ‘Gravity’, Then Go Home And Hug Your Dog
Midway through Gravity, Dr Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) makes contact with a foreign man back home on Earth. The seven-minute short follows the other half of that conversation.
Remember that scene in Gravity, when Sandra Bullock, lost in space with no hope of return, tries one last time to make contact with Houston — and finds a drunken foreign man instead, who howls with her and then sings her to a calmer, less space-like place?
Gravity screenwriter Jonas Cuarón, the son of the film’s director Alfonso Cuarón, directed a short film to accompany the feature, which tells the story of the other half of that conversation. The man Dr Stone talks to is an inuit fisherman (played by Greenland’s Orto Ignatiussen), surrounded by ice, snow, and a pack of dogs on a remote fjord in Greenland.
One of his dogs is sick and in pain. He loves this dog so much.
Aningaaq, which has been shown at Vince and Telluride film festivals, will be released as a special feature of the Gravity Blu-ray and DVD. It’s been submitted for Oscar consideration too; if it ends up being nominated, it will be the first time a feature and spin-off short have been up for an award in the same year.