| To Build a Fire | |
| Director: | Fx Goby |
| Producer: | Samuel François-Steininger Chris O'reilly Charlotte Bavasso Christel Delahaye |
| Starring: | Tony Fish |
| Music: | Mathieu Alvado |
| Runtime: | 13 minutes |
| Country: | France United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
To Build a Fire (French: Construire un Feu) is a 2016 French animated short film directed by Fx Goby adapted from the 1902 and 1908 short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. The film has been presented in a number of festivals including the Cannes Film Festival,[1] the Anibar International Animation Festival,[2] the New Orleans Film Festival[3] and the Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the prize for best animation.[4]
The film was partially funded through Indiegogo, an American crowdfunding platform.[5]
In the harshness of midwinter, an unnamed man attempts to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness to arrive at a camp where his friends are while bracing temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero with his companion, a wolf-dog. Struggling to survive, he makes multiple attempts to build a simple fire.[6]
The short was also included in The animation Showcase Best of the year 2016.