Synopsis:
Plug & Play is an award-winning short film and game for your digital device. Explore the feelings of anthropoid creatures that go beyond sexuality and reproduction: love. Plug & Play is a surreal play with plugs.
- Director:
- Michael Frei
- Year:
- 2013
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Running time:
- 6 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation
- Production type:
- Student
- Producer:
- Jean First
- Animator:
- Michael Frei
- Script writer:
- Michael Frei
- Music composers:
- Saint Elijah Church Children Choir, Saint Eliyah Church Children Choir
- Sound designers:
- Michael Frei, Thomas Gassmann
- Editor:
- Michael Frei
- Productions:
- HSLU Art & Design, François Chalet
- Distribution:
- Michael Frei
- School:
- Hochschule Luzern
- Genres:
- Drama, Experimental, Non-narrative
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Identity, Relationships, Love, Technology and society, Humor, Poetic, Minimalist, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Berlinale, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
- Awards:
- Best Short Film at Ottawa International Animation Festival, Special Jury Award at Annecy International Animation Film Festival
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