This short photo animation features images of people who have photographed themselves with a camera and flash in front of a mirror, and consists of material the maker found on the internet. Jasper Elings graduated from the St. Joost Academie in Breda in 2005 and is one of the new, highly inventive generation of young animators.
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. -
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… -
Brothers of Metal
Heavy metal witnessed its heyday in the 1980s as a controversial and loud music genre, with a dedicated fan base. Metal knows many subgenres… -
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
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 2'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
