Synopsis:
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.
- Director:
- Soetkin Verstegen
- Year:
- 2019
- Running time:
- 5 min.
- Technique:
- Stop Motion Animation, Pixilation
- Production type:
- Student
- Producer:
- Soetkin Verstegen
- Animator:
- Soetkin Verstegen
- Script writer:
- Soetkin Verstegen
- Music composers:
- Andrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok
- Sound designers:
- Andrea Martignoni, Michal Krajczok
- Editor:
- Soetkin Verstegen
- Distribution:
- Light Cone
- School:
- Akademie Schloss Solitude
- Genres:
- Experimental, Non-narrative
- Tags:
- Time, Nature, Animals, Poetic, Transformation, Surreal, Festival Darlings, Minimalist
- Audience:
- 16+
- Festival selections:
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Animafest Zagreb, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
- Awards:
- Best Experimental Short Film at various festivals
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