Short animation inspired by scientific findings that confined chickens are happier than free range ones living in perpetual fear of predators. It playfully depicts chickens exhibiting anthropomorphic behaviour and forming complicated social structures in a battery cage resembling an apartment building.
Also in this combined programme
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Aurore
A poetic existentialist journey though the human body and soul. Jean-Julien Pous won the New Arrivals Award in 2009 with Seeking You. -
Silent Things
Exploration of the tormented relationship between love and friendship, passion and jealousy, set in the turbulent landscape of the English coast. -
Ghost of Icarus
Inspired by the city symphony genre and the Soviet montage movement, this short connects the ancient Greek story of Icarus with a trip through a… -
First Snow
Captured and simultaneously accelerated, the fleeing moment of the first winter snowfall on a residential street in Moscow. -
Plank
An inspiring story that documents the life and dreams, hardships and perseverance of the 15-year-old aspiring pro skateboarder Nassim.Also screened at -
Landscape, Semi-surround
Semi-surround landscape projected on 16 screens, showing rhythmically-edited moving images of the passing landscape framed though a train window. -
Vanishing Point
A graphic experiment exploring the metamorphosis of shapes, perspectives and dimensions. -
Sta ik
Sensitive, short fiction on the old body that no longer works, while young people take their mobility for granted.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
