Synopsis:
A watchmaker’s apprentice realizes that the perfect clockwork can be made only if he sacrifices himself completely.
- Director:
- Manuel Šumberac
- Year:
- 2013
- Country:
- Croatia
- Running time:
- 9 min.
- Technique:
- 3D Animation, Puppet Animation
- Original title:
- Mehaničko srce
- Production type:
- Student
- Script writer:
- Manuel Šumberac
- Music composer:
- Vjeran Šalamon
- Editor:
- Manuel Šumberac
- Productions:
- Zagreb Film, ALU – Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb
- Distribution:
- Zagreb Film
- Genres:
- Drama, Tragedy, Fantasy, Experimental
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Mental health, Trauma, Identity, Death, Time, Sad, Relationships, Poetic, Transformation, Dreams, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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