Synopsis:
Nine short and unexpected stories that tell us how a person can be depicted. By mixing abstraction, collage and drawing animation, the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of the potential of animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.
- Director:
- Sasha Svirsky
- Year:
- 2016
- Country:
- Russia
- Running time:
- 6 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation, Cut-Out Animation, Mixed media
- Original title:
- 9 способов нарисовать человека
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producers:
- Nadezhda Svirskaya, Sasha Svirsky
- Animator:
- Sasha Svirsky
- Script writer:
- Sasha Svirsky
- Music composer:
- Alexey Prosvirnin
- Sound designer:
- Alexey Prosvirnin
- Editor:
- Sasha Svirsky
- Production:
- Svirsky Studio
- Genres:
- Experimental, Non-narrative
- Tags:
- Educational, Surreal, Festival Darlings, Identity, Humor, Poetic, Transformation, Minimalist
- Audience:
- 16+
- Festival selections:
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
- Awards:
- Best Experimental Film at various international festivals
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Enducated
2020 7+ 7 min
by Xavia Chen
Once upon a time, there was a crawling tortoise. The tortoise was told that as long as it keeps going, it will reach the goal. But, why reaching the goal? The story is a reflection of the education system in Asia. High school students aimlessly pursue the one and only goal – getting into the perfect university. But what is next?
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Tanzonk
2015 Adults 9 min
by Sasha Svirsky
A story about a soldier who fights in a global war between robots and humanity. Once he was injured and robot-woman helped him to get well. They fell in love but humanity as well as robots do not want to accept this love.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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My Galactic Twin Galaction
2020 Adults 7 min
by Sasha Svirsky
Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post-narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Night Shift
2019 16+ 3 min
by Linda Stūre
A security guard’s nightly ritual – a Tetris game – is interrupted by unexpected technical issues. One of the surveillance cameras breaks down, and the game sets its own rules.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Tamed
2018 13+ 4 min
by Katya Mikheeva, Ekaterina Mikheeva
Story about a man, who lives with a Big Yellow Hand. It constantly takes care of him, follows him everywhere, leaving no place for his personal decisions. One day man falls in love.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The House
2011 16+ 7 min
by David Buob
The dream of the little girl is to care for her grandmother, but aunt and mother do not let her do so. There is only one way out.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Little & Big
1966 16+ 8 min
by Zlatko Grgić
A competitive game of one-upsmanship between two men, one small and one tall.
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Tamer of wild horses
1966 16+ 8 min
by Nedeljko Dragić
A tamer of wild horses encounters a metal monster in the shape of a horse. When he tried to move it, the horse turns into a mechanized freak, which threatens to destroy the world. But, when he started the right lever, this miracle of technology spread its wings and carried man into space.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Schooling
1970 7+ 9 min
by Zlatko Bourek
Until yesterday, it never occurred to the three birds to look at the world around them, but today, when they heard certain voices for the first time, they decided to do something significant…
- Educational
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Kvítek: Ten sen
2023 16+ 3 min
by Anastázie Rainischová, Julie Černá, Ondřej Salava & others
The animated video clip was created as a closing ceremony at UMPRUM in Prague. Four second-year students were challenged to combine their different approaches to visuals and animation itself. The central motifs of the film are the range of cartoon animation and the building of friendship, metaphorically represented in the theme of this work.
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore
2021 16+ 5 min
by Iris Hobson-Mazur, Michaela Matějková
In the music video we visit a bizarre shop in the middle of nowhere. Our guide is a shady man in a bowler hat, who may not be as friendly as he seems. The shop offers a variety of bizarre items including portals to other worlds.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Oh no!
2021 Adults 5 min
by Ivan Maksimov
Sometimes something suddenly seems annoyingly unacceptable, a failure comes and a bummer happens.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Non-narrative