A combination of homage, wink and parody of heavy metal subculture in Coenen’s typical 3D animation style: glossy, techno, edgy and exuberant. In a more sober colour palette than usual, the artist matches the grouchy and dark character of metal and happily mixes a variety of symbols in an unorthodox manner.
Also in this combined programme
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Liquidator
Innovative use of existing archive images from Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). By Karel Doing, with sound design by Michal Osowski. -
Majesteit
Video poem by eddie d in which pompous rituals around ‘Prinsjesdag’ are exposed and reduced to their very essence by means of canny editing. -
Flashings in the Mirror
Flashings in the Mirror is a video composed of shared flashing-in-the-mirror photos, found via Google Images. -
Everytime
With a reinterpretation of a pop song released in 2004 by Britney Spears, this video demonstrates how reality and (mass) media today are strongly inte -
Birth of a Nation
How to become an ideal woman? At a cadet school in Moscow, girls are trained to be ideal citizens of the homeland. A research on… -
City of Progress
This animation shows how a city grows organically from a small dot to a complicated system of lines and forms in which our desire for… -
The Origin of Creatures
Futuristic vision of a world after a catastrophic disaster. Dark parable in which miscommunication makes it hard for the mutated limbs to cooperate. -
Dawn
Second part of a diptych by Erwin Olaf which consists of Dusk (2009) and Dawn (2010). The latter is almost literally a negative pendant to…
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
