Look at all these cute lil' buggers! Crawling around and being adorable. But wait, what happens next? This amusing 4-minute animated short film called Zoon is now online for everyone to watch. It first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and has been screening at tons of other festivals for the past two years. Zoon is created and directed by German animation filmmaker Jonatan Schwenk, who really loves hybrid animation and always cooks up clever concepts in his funky stop-motion shorts. (He also did sound design for this short Rules of Play with his friend Merlin Flügel.) Residing in a swamp at the bottom of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls pursue lustful games. The creatures relish nuzzling one another & also nibbling their companions' limbs. One review says this is about "the beauty and cruelty of nature." Though I'd argue that what happens in the second half is...
- 6/6/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Luisa (Lou Strenger) and Chrissimo (Christoph Bertram) get distracted by the wildflowers on their way to his parents, Ferhat (Ferhat Kaleli) and Peter (Peter Brachschoss) in Florian Schmitz’ smartly edited Le Pré Du Mal
Florian Schmitz’s Le Pré Du Mal, along with Alison Kuhn's Fluffy Tales, Jonatan Schwenk’s Zoon (co-written with Merlin Flügel), Luis Schubert’s Blind Spots, Kilian Armando Friedrich’s Edgy, Lina Drevs’s Sis - Best Sister, Felix Länge’s Why We Juggle, Laurenz Otto’s Against All Odds (Allen Zweifeln Zum Trotz), and Jakob Werner’s How Such An Annoying Drizzle Can Be Silent (Wie Ein So Lästiger Regen Schweigen Kann) is in the Next Generation Short Tiger program screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Florian Schmitz with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I have different influences I would say. The basis for me - I know it sounds like a cliché, but Truffaut is always a big inspiration.
Florian Schmitz’s Le Pré Du Mal, along with Alison Kuhn's Fluffy Tales, Jonatan Schwenk’s Zoon (co-written with Merlin Flügel), Luis Schubert’s Blind Spots, Kilian Armando Friedrich’s Edgy, Lina Drevs’s Sis - Best Sister, Felix Länge’s Why We Juggle, Laurenz Otto’s Against All Odds (Allen Zweifeln Zum Trotz), and Jakob Werner’s How Such An Annoying Drizzle Can Be Silent (Wie Ein So Lästiger Regen Schweigen Kann) is in the Next Generation Short Tiger program screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Florian Schmitz with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I have different influences I would say. The basis for me - I know it sounds like a cliché, but Truffaut is always a big inspiration.
- 5/24/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jonatan Schwenk on Zoon: “I think the first thing that I had in mind was an approach to make a different film than my last one [Sog].” Photo: courtesy of Jonatan Schwenk
Jonatan Schwenk’s Zoon (co-written with Merlin Flügel) along with Alison Kuhn’s Fluffy Tales, Florian Schmitz’s Le Pré Du Mal, Luis Schubert’s Blind Spots, Kilian Armando Friedrich’s Edgy, Lina Drevs’s Sis - Best Sister, Felix Länge’s Why We Juggle, Laurenz Otto’s Against All Odds (Allen Zweifeln Zum Trotz), and Jakob Werner’s How Such An Annoying Drizzle Can Be Silent (Wie Ein So Lästiger Regen Schweigen Kann) are in the Next Generation Short Tiger program screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Jonatan Schwenk with Anne-Katrin Titze outside the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud: “An old monastery, super old, I think built around a thousand years ago. I’m here in a writing residency for animation.
Jonatan Schwenk’s Zoon (co-written with Merlin Flügel) along with Alison Kuhn’s Fluffy Tales, Florian Schmitz’s Le Pré Du Mal, Luis Schubert’s Blind Spots, Kilian Armando Friedrich’s Edgy, Lina Drevs’s Sis - Best Sister, Felix Länge’s Why We Juggle, Laurenz Otto’s Against All Odds (Allen Zweifeln Zum Trotz), and Jakob Werner’s How Such An Annoying Drizzle Can Be Silent (Wie Ein So Lästiger Regen Schweigen Kann) are in the Next Generation Short Tiger program screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Jonatan Schwenk with Anne-Katrin Titze outside the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud: “An old monastery, super old, I think built around a thousand years ago. I’m here in a writing residency for animation.
- 5/8/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
How about some experimental animation to shake up your day and swirl your brain? Rules of Play is a fascinating animated short film from German animation filmmaker Merlin Flügel. It's only 7 minutes and it takes you on a journey into a strange world of people with no faces. The official synopsis: A group of tired playground visitors meet at night for a last contest. The short seems to be riffing on board games and school games, connecting the monotony of it all to our everyday lives and the need to gamify everything. I always enjoy experimental shorts like this because even if I can't understand or figure it out, there's still so much to appreciate in its creativity and uniqueness. And now I want to watch all of the films Merlin has made so far. Thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks for the tip on this short. Very brief description from...
- 4/19/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
I Lost My Body, Jeremy Clapin’s feature animation debut, picked up the Cristal today for a feature film at the 2019 Annecy Int’l Animated Film Festival.
The film also won a Critics’ Week Award last month at Cannes, and was picked up by Netflix.
Other Annecy winners included Gints Zilbalodis’ Away, which picked up the Annecy’s new Contrechamps category for feature film.
On the shorts side: Bruno Collet’s Memorable, won prizes for Short Film and the Audience Award.
The festival, held in Annecy, France, ran from June 10 to June 15.
Below is the complete list of winners:
Feature Films
Cristal for a Feature Film
I Lost My Body
Jeremy Clapin – Xilam Animation – France
Jury Distinction
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Salvador Simo – Sygnatia Films, Submarine – Spain/Netherlands
Feature Films Contrechamp Award
Away
Gints Zilbalodis – Bilibaba- Latvia
Audience Award / Premiere
I Lost My Body
Jeremy Clapin – Xilam...
The film also won a Critics’ Week Award last month at Cannes, and was picked up by Netflix.
Other Annecy winners included Gints Zilbalodis’ Away, which picked up the Annecy’s new Contrechamps category for feature film.
On the shorts side: Bruno Collet’s Memorable, won prizes for Short Film and the Audience Award.
The festival, held in Annecy, France, ran from June 10 to June 15.
Below is the complete list of winners:
Feature Films
Cristal for a Feature Film
I Lost My Body
Jeremy Clapin – Xilam Animation – France
Jury Distinction
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Salvador Simo – Sygnatia Films, Submarine – Spain/Netherlands
Feature Films Contrechamp Award
Away
Gints Zilbalodis – Bilibaba- Latvia
Audience Award / Premiere
I Lost My Body
Jeremy Clapin – Xilam...
- 6/16/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
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