Synopsis:
A group of animals hooks up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing – the useful and the useless – is automated..
- Director:
- Jorn Leeuwerink
- Year:
- 2022
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Running time:
- 8 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation
- Original title:
- Varken
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Tünde Volenbroek
- Animator:
- Jorn Leeuwerink
- Script writer:
- Jorn Leeuwerink
- Music composers:
- Job Chajes, Bram Meindersma
- Sound designer:
- Bram Meindersma
- Editors:
- Jorn Leeuwerink, Dario van Vree
- Production:
- Studio Pupil
- Distribution:
- Kaboom Distribution
- Genres:
- Drama, Comedy, Experimental, Tragicomedy
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Political, Sustainability, Technology and society, Animals, Humor, Poetic, Transformation, Climate crisis, Shame
- Audience:
- 16+
- Festival selections:
- Anifilm – International Festival of Animated Films
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