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'Metamorphosis' is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Barry Greenwald and released in 1975.[Frank Daley, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77360598/ "Cannes prize-winner forced to drive taxi"]. 'Ottawa Journal', June 18, 1976.] A satirical parable about the rat race, the film centres on a man (Bob Green) who is bored with his daily routine, and decides one day to undress and dress himself again in the elevator on his way to work; successfully accomplishing the task, he sets greater challenges to accomplish during the nine-floor elevator ride, culminating in a day when he lives his entire life in the span of the trip and is dead by the time he reaches the ground floor.[
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Greenwald made the film as a student project while studying film at Conestoga College.[Dane Lanken, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77361060/ "Last year's festival entrant is one of this year's judges"]. 'Montreal Gazette', September 24, 1976.]
The film premiered in 1975 at the Stratford Film Festival. It was screened ten days later at Concordia University's Canadian Student Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention,[ and Greenwald won the Canadian Film Award for Best Sound Editing in a Non-Feature at the 26th Canadian Film Awards.][Maria Topalovich, 'And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards'. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 111-114.]
It was subsequently screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Short Film Palme d'Or.[
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