Animated film using digital animation technique. The film depicts the Slavic embodiment of winter, Morana, which symbolizes death, cold and unpleasant feelings. According to folk customs, the figure of Morana is brought out and burned every year to celebrate the end of winter. But is this figure really only negative? Is she not just misunderstood and unappreciated? After all, if nature did not rest in winter, spring could not come.
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Lucie Smrktová
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Animator
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Morana
2020 All audiences 5 min
by Lucie Smrktová
Animated film using digital animation technique. The film depicts the Slavic embodiment of winter, Morana, which symbolizes death, cold and unpleasant feelings. According to folk customs, the figure of Morana is brought out and burned every year to celebrate the end of winter. But is this figure really only negative? Is she not just misunderstood and unappreciated? After all, if nature did not rest in winter, spring could not come.