I Am Your Mother

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"Of course I'm embarrassing. I am your mother."
―Kalina Kalfus, to Anni[5]

"I Am Your Mother" is the fourth episode of the Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 by Aardman Animations that premiered on Disney+ on May 4, 2023.[1] It had an early screening at Celebration Europe, on April 10.[2] It is made using stop-motion by the UK-based animation studio Aardman Animations and directed by Magdalena Osinska.[1]

The episode was adapted in the young readers graphic novel I Am Your Mother/Aau's Song published in the Screen Comix series on April 2, 2024.[6]

Official description

Young pilot Anni, who is embarrassed by her sweet, but clingy mum, must team with her for a madcap family race at the academy. Along the way, their relationship is tested by the elements, their old ship, other racers...and each other![7]

Plot summary

Exposition

During the New Republic Era, Wedge Antilles makes a final call for the end-of-the-year family race of the Hanna City Flight Academy on Chandrila. It is the annual celebration of flight trainees and their families, which will be hosted by him. The billboard playing Antilles' message is raided for spareparts by a Jawa.

Family life

Elsewhere, the Twi'lek adolescent Annisoukaline Kalfus listens to Antilles' broadcast on a holoscreen. Her mother Kalina Kalfus plays with a guitar before playing with a blow torch and welding the astromech droid Z-1. Anni says that she is about to head to the Academy, which draws her Mum's attention. Kalina asks if she is heading there for racing. Anni denies this is the case and asks about Z-1. After tinkering with the droid's pulley system, she says that he is all fixed.

The droid stretches his body but it causes him to stumble and fall back says. Z-1 plays a video of a younger Anni and Kalina sitting together in a starfighter as Kalina does the Ryloth Roll. Anni prepares to leave but Kalina insists on hugging her daughter and giving her lunch. Kalina chats with Z-1, saying it will be worth it when her daughter graduates from the Flight Academy. Kalina realizes that her daughter has left her lunch behind but Anni has already left on her transit.

The family race

At the Hanna City Flight Academy, several airspeeders and starfighters line up for a race. Antilles takes the opportunity to promote several branded products at his merchandise stall. While Anni is walking, a Didynon pilot questions Anni decision not to race. Anni lies that her mother is unavailable. A human female pilot named Julan Van Reeple mocks Kalina and Anni's spacetug, describing it as a porta potty. When Antilles announces the presence of Julan and her pilot mother Dorota Van Reeple, Julan dealers. The Didynon ask Anni why she lets Julan badmouth her. His Wookiee companion roars in agreement.

As the pilots prepare their vehicles, two Didynon racers laugh at a Wookiee child, accompanying his Wookiee racer parents in another speeder. The Wookiee responds by tearing the arms of his soft toy, prompting them to close their canopy in fear. Julan and Dorota climb into their dagger-shaped black racer. Anni watches from the grand stand. Before the race can commence, the droid racing flag bearer is distracted by a fallen bra. Kalina arrives in her box-shaped speeder with Z-1 and calls for her daughter. Anni runs away in embarrassment but returns after her mum calls for her.

The latecomers

Kalina tells her daughter she forgot her lunch. Anni says that she didn't have to come but Kalina replies that she can make up for her missing work hours. Kalina learns about the family race from the announcer. Julan and Dorota tell Kalina and Anni to move their space tug. Kalina decides to take part in the race at the last minute, much to Anni's dismay. The racers race through the streets of Hanna City.

The Didynon pilot accidentally pulls off the the steering wheel, causing his vehicle to plummet to the ground. Anni tries to dissuade her mum but she is determined to participate in the family race. Kalina expresses a mild disappointment that her daughter concealed the race from her. The Wookiee family's speeder drifts out of the race after their child takes them off course. Kalina catches up with the Van Reeples' speeder. Anni tells Kalina that she is embarrassed by her mother, their speeder, and Z-1. This saddens Kalina. While Kalina is distracted, the Van Reeples ram their speeder into the Kalfus' spacetug, causing it to crash through a billboard.

Anni is shocked by the Van Reeples' dirty tactics but Kalina is not daunted and tells Z-1 to activate the thrusters. They find that Z-1 is clinging to the back of the space tug. She tells Anni that those are live cables and encourages her to take the helm while she helps Z-1. Anni is surprised that what she regards as a "piece of junk" can still fly despite the damage. She is also relieved to hear that her mum has rescued Z-1 and that the two are clinging onto a grappling cable. Kalina encourages Anni to continue the race.

Mother and daughter

Though the Van Reeples shoot at the Kalfus' space tug with a Death Star–shaped laser cannon, the space tug recovers and manages to pull ahead of the Van Reeples' speeder. Julan attempts to shoot the space tug but misses. Dorota snatches the controls from her daughter and prepares to fire their laser cannon. Anni takes her space tug on the Ryloth Roll with her mother and Z-1 still clinging on. While the Van Reeples are distracted, they collide with a structure, causing their vehicle to do somersaults.

A family hug

A family hug

With Kalina and Z-1 safely on top of the space tug, Anni takes the space tug to the finish line, winning the race. Meanwhile, Julan grumbles it is not fair as she is smothered by the airbag. Antilles announces that the Kalfus family have won the race. When Kalina remarks that her daughter learned something at the Flight Academy, Anni replies that she learned a lot from her mother. She apologizes for not telling her mother about the race. Anni remarks that Kalina can be embarrassing. Kalina quips that she is embarrassing because she is her mother.

Development

Aardman Animations included Cooker in the short shortly before the race. Cooker is a character first featured in Aardman's Wallace and Gromit film A Grand Day Out,[8] released in 1989.[9]

Credits

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Cast

Crew

  • Inspired by Star Wars created by – George Lucas
  • Directed by – Magdelena Osinska
  • Produced by – Aardman Animations
    • Producer – Danny Gallagher
    • Executive Producers – Hellen Argo, Sarah Cox
  • Produced by – Lucasfilm Ltd.
  • Story by – Magdalena Osinska
  • Written by – Holly Walsh, Barunka O'shaughnessy
  • Additional Writing – Sam Morrison
  • Executive Consultant – Mark Burton
  • Music by – Jean-Marc Petsas
  • Orchestration by – Andrew Morgan
  • Voice Director – Sharon Miller
  • Casting Director – Lucy Rands CDG
  • Additional Casting by – Lindsay Halper
  • Casting Coordinator – April Caputi
  • Production Services by Aardman Animations
    • Head of Story – Adrian Maganza
    • Storyboard Artists – Eva Figueroa López, Imo Rolfe
    • Editor – Christopher Morrell
    • Assistant Editor – Harri Mcainsh
    • Dialogue Breakdown Editor – William Davies
    • Editorial System Support – Paul Reeves, Tom Lacey
    • Production Technology – Toby Chilcott, Adam Hanney, William Marshall, John Morrissey, Samuel Taylor
    • Production Designer – Aurelien Predal
    • Character Design – Félicie Haymoz
    • Character Design and Concept Art – Andy Janes
    • Digital Matte Painting Artist – James Grant
    • Graphic Artist – Gavin Lines
    • Development Executive – Natalie Mckay
    • Production Manager – Holly Churches
    • Visual Effects Production Manager – Luke Tucker
    • 1st Assistant Director – Kev Harwood
    • Production Coordinator – Jamie Steele
    • Production HR & Legal – Lauren Andrews, Natalie Collier, Lauren Ponsford, Layla Stapenhurst, Tayla Walton-baker
    • Production Runner – Rebecca Hardess
    • Co-Executive Producers – Sean Clarke, Kerry Lock, Peter Lord
    • Puppet Making Creative Lead – Sam Holland
    • Senior Puppet Makers – Paul Davies, Luke George, Victoria Humphris, Beth Jupe, Emily Nicholson, Alicia Cánovas Verdú, George Watson
    • Digital Puppet Sculpters – Sam Roe, Jonathan Webb
    • Puppet Makers – Thomas Astley, Bethany Bentham, Emily Bond, Polly De La Croix-Vaubois, Noah Griffiths, Diane Holness, Daniel James, Tandie Langton, Jack Slade
    • Art Director – Andy Brown
    • Assistant Art Director – Helen Javes
    • Workshop Manager / Senior Prop Maker – James Held
    • Set Construction – Thomas Sewell, Cathryn Webber
    • Senior Set Dressers / Prop Makers – Rachel Bennett, Charlotte Dale, Lindsay Douglas
    • Set Dressers / Prop Makers – Lucy Beckett, Alastair Fleming, Katie-louise Green, David Haworth, Harry Jenkins
    • Junior Art Department Assistant – Thomas Hughes
    • Animation Director – Steve Cox
    • Lead Animator – Laurie Sitzia
    • Animators – Andy Biddle, Christine Brennan, Danail Kraev, Henry Nicholson, Evelyn Ross
    • Assistant Animator – Grant Holden
    • Supervising Rigger – Richard Modlen
    • Riggers – Luke George, Kevin Wright
    • Director of Photography – Tristan Oliver B.S.C.
    • Senior Camera Assistant – Mark Swaffield
    • Camera Assistan – Siwan Hughes
    • Gaffer – Toby Farrar
    • Practical Spark – Josh Stone
    • Motion Control Operator – Adam Cook
    • Visual Effects Supervisor – Bram Ttwheam
    • CG Supervisor – Ben Toogood
    • Lead Compositors – Jeff Dillon, Fernando Lechuga
    • Compositors – Hugh Brazier, Tavis Flett, Eve Mansfield, James Mcpherson, Peter Phillips, Bijun Zhuge
    • Lead Lighting Technical Director – Tessa Mapp
    • Senior CG Artist – Chris Hawkes
    • CG Artists – Signe Tveitan, Trine Sørensen
    • CG Animators – Danielle Abram, Daniel Gerhardt, Ollie Patricio
    • CG Character Supervisor – Nathan Guttridge
    • Junior CG Rigger – Konstantina Georgiou
    • 2D FX Animator – Matthew Timms
    • Orchestral Score Recorded at REAL WORLD STUDIOS
      • Conductor – Drew Morgan
      • Orchestra – The Bristol Ensemble
      • Music Preparation Assistants – Andy Keenan, Reuben Nottage
      • Music Mixed by – Jake Jackson
    • Post Production Supervisor – Tom Barnes F.B.K.S.
    • Supervising Sound Director – Adrian Rhodes
    • Dialogue Recording Services by – The Sound Company, 80 HERTZ Studios
    • Recording Engineers – George Atkins, Alan Leer, Luke Nagy, Gareth Wood
    • Audio Post Production – Warner Bros. De Lane Lea
    • Dialogue Editor – Tim Hands
    • Re-Recording Mixers – Adrian Rhodes
    • Studio Assistant – Kirsten Kidwell
    • Digital Intermediate By – The Look Post Production
    • DI Colourist – Thomas Urbye
  • Lucasfilm Ltd.

Special thanks

  • Kate Anderson
  • Blair Brown
  • Celia Hunt
  • Jess Mckillop
  • Tom Parkinson
  • Loyd Price
  • Carla Shelley
  • Zoe Starzak
  • Howard Arnault-ham
  • Christopher Entwistle
  • Jose Prats Lopez
  • Nick Park
  • Tony Prescott
  • Nathan Sale
  • Dave Sproxton
  • John Wright Model Making
  • Filmed With The UK Government's Creative Sector Tax Relief.
  • Thanks To All At Aardman Who Contributed To The Making Of This Film.

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 StarWars.com Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 Release Date, Studios Revealed on StarWars.com (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TwitterLogo Star Wars Explained (@starwarsexplain) on Twitter (post): "I think we are gonna get to watch I Am Your Mother by Aardman!" (backup link)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Star-Wars-Visions-series-logo-short Star Wars: Visions — "I Am Your Mother"
  4. ↑ This Week in Star Wars logo This Week! in Star Wars Star Wars Day is Here, Visions Volume 2, and More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) places the events of "I Am Your Mother" before Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY, and Star-Wars-Visions-series-logo-short Star Wars: Visions Filmmaker Focus — "I Am Your Mother" establishes that Hans R'kov was the Hanna City dance champion in 8 ABY. Therefore, "I Am Your Mother" must take place between 8 ABY and 34 ABY.
  5. ↑ Star-Wars-Visions-series-logo-short Star Wars: Visions — "I Am Your Mother"
  6. ↑ PenguinRandomHouse-Logo I Am Your Mother/Aau's Song (Star Wars Visions) on Penguin Random House's official website (backup link)
  7. ↑ StarWars.com SWCE 2023: Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 Trailer, Key Art, and Cast Revealed on StarWars.com (backup link)
  8. ↑ Premium-Era-real A Grand Day Out | Wallace and Gromit on www.wallaceandgromit.com (backup link archived on February 11, 2025)
  9. ↑ Premium-Era-real A Grand Day Out (1989) on www.bfi.org.uk (backup link archived on September 21, 2015)
  10. ↑ http://www.aurelien-predal.com/star-wars-visions-volume-2

External links

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