After a night of drinking into the early hours of the morning, it can become quite difficult to communicate. Our words are slurred and our thoughts are foggy. How can we be understandable, when our words fail us?
"The Odd Hour" is an experimentation with space, objects and an overhead projector. It is the first animated adaptation of poem by Ewald Murrer, member of the Wernisch family consisting of three generations of respected Czech poets. Along with the other two will be made an animated triptych or rather a bond tying their torn-apart relationship.
By the film MATHIAS, I try to convey to the viewer a very personal topic for me – coping with an inner demons. The story takes place from the point of view of two main characters – a dead aristocrat and a grave robber in two time epochs. It is a short film, using the technique of 2D drawn animation. The soundtrack consists of songs by two composers.
People had long ago cut themselves off of their natural environment and have suffered since from this division, the lack of the essential feeling of unity and belonging.
She feels dirty. Bella wakes up, showers, shaves her legs and when she looks into the mirror the only thing there is her tired ageing face. You can wash clothes to get rid of the physical dirt but you cannot do the same with your souls. Or can you?
Bernie Krause's niche theory is that an animal's voice evolved in a way to occupy its own little, unique acoustic slot within a whole soundscape, a puzzle piece in the whole puzzle, to be distinguishable in the mess. A fisher wonders what sounds fit best in niches created by surrounding sounds.