Synopsis:
When Doctor Stein’s best friend dies during his last experiment, the grieving scientist is ready to do everything it takes to get his dog back. Building a dead-reviving machine is not a rocket science for him but this time the experiment goes monstrously wrong. A short stop-motion film about a creator and its monster he despises.
- Director:
- Gabriela Plačková, Gabriela Plačkova
- Year:
- 2020
- Country:
- Czech Republic
- Running time:
- 15 min.
- Technique:
- Stop Motion Animation, Puppet Animation
- Original title:
- Skříňostroj doktora Steina
- Production type:
- Student
- Producers:
- Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zuzana Dědochová
- Animator:
- Gabriela Plačková
- Script writers:
- Gabriela Plačková, Marika Zupková
- Music composers:
- Václav Tomáš, Václav Toman
- Sound designers:
- Václav Tomáš, Pavel Vrtěl
- Editors:
- David Lorenc, David Lorenz
- Production:
- Tomas Bata University in Zlín
- Distribution:
- Tomas Bata University in Zlín
- Genres:
- Fantasy, Experimental
- Audience:
- 10+
- Festival selections:
- Zlín Film Festival
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