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Hunger/La Faim is a 1974 Canadian animated short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It was directed by Peter Foldes and is one of the first computer animation films. The story, told without words, is based on the consequences of gluttony and greed in contemporary society, which showcases a man's progression from slim and young to grotesque and obese.

Foldes developed a computer animation application in collaboration with the National Research Council Canada (NRC) in 1969. In addition, scientist Nestor Burtnyk worked as the short film's lead animator and wrote its computer program code, while physicist Marceli Wein programmed a "key frame animation" package to create animated sequences from key frames. Foldes wrote a proposal emphasized with metamorphosis and pitched it to René Jodoin, the head of NFB's French animation division at the time. Before its progression as a narrative short film, Foldes' produced the computer key frame-based experimental short film Metadata (1971).

Following the attention and reviews of Metadata, Foldes began production on Hunger, which emphasized Foldes' use of figurative drawing and politically charged themes. The short film used a 2D technique that allowed the use of object shape modification and line interpolation techniques, emphasizing its ability for line drawings to dissolve and reshape into various images. Hunger took a year and a half to complete and the music for the short film was composed by Pierre F. Brault.

Hunger received positive reviews for its innovative use of computer animation in a narrative form and won multiple international film awards throughout 1974 and 1975, including the Cannes Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, and 28th British Academy Film Awards. It was also nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 47th Academy Awards the latter year. In 1997, Burtnyk and Wein received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in computer animation for their "pioneering work" on Hunger.

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