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Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter, 2022, 2’14’’ (replacement animation & pixilation).

A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes, the border between past and present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time, by portraying one woman caught in the middle.

Original title & synopsis (Dutch): Stilleven met vrouw, thee en brief

Een foto is een blik in het verleden, maar soms is de grens tussen heden en verleden niet helemaal duidelijk. Deze stop-motion animatie nodigt ons uit om na te denken over onze relatie tot tijd, door een vrouw te portretteren die in het midden gevangen zit.

This Ultrakort film premiered in fall 2022 at the Nederlands Film Festival and was screened in Art House Cinemas in the Netherlands (NFO) in January and February 2023.

Additional screenings:

aCinema Summer Screening Series, Milwaukee, WI, USA, July 19-21, 2024
Tabor Film Festival, Veliki Tabor Castle, Croatia, July 6-7, 2024
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, April 26, 2024
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway, Jan 23-28, 2024 (Honorable Mention)
Alternative Film Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, Dec 6-9, 2023
Interface Video Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, Dec 5-10, 2023
Tindirindis International Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023
Animateka International Animated Film Festival (Best of the World program), Ljubljana, Slovenia, Nov 27-Dec 3, 2023
Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Australia, Nov 14-26, 2023
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy, Nov 15-19, 2023
Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy, Nov 14-19, 2023
accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival, Naples, Italy, Nov 13, 2023
Feinaki Animation Week, Beijing, China (Panorama), Nov 10, 2023
Museumnacht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nov 4, 2023
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden, 23-29 Oct, 2023
Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Silhouettes program), Budaors, Hungary, Oct 11-14, 2023
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada, Oct 4-8, 2023
Stoptrik International Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia, Sept 27-Oct 1
Revolutions Per Minute Festival, UMass Boston, USA, Sept 5-Oct 28, 2023
Malatesta Short Film Festival, Cesena, Italy, Sept 1-4, 2023
Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Aug 18-20, 2023
Animaphix Film Festival, Bagheria, Italy, July 25-30, 2023
Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA, USA, July 13-16, 2023
Walla Walla Movie Crush, Walla Walla, WA, USA, July 7-9, 2023
Shorts International Film Festival, Trieste, Italy, July 1-8, 2023
Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy, June 14-18, 2023
Isola Cinema International Film Festival, Isola, Slovenia, June 7-11, 2023
Topocentrala Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, group exhibition ‘Female Bodies in the Digital’, May 11-June 9, 2023
Animatricks International Animation Festival, Helsinki, Finland, May 18-20, 2023
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, USA, April 18-22, 2023
Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, March 16-April 2, 2023
Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse, France, March 16-31, 2023
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, Sept 2022

CREDITS:

Director & Screenwriter: Tess Martin
Director of Photography: Matija Pekić
Art Director: Iris Schutgevaar
Performers: Iris Schutgevaar & Amy Gale
Lead Animator: Marike Verbiest
Assistant Animator: Tess Martin
Color Correction: Matija Pekić
Sound Design & Music: Jorick Bronius

Produced by Volya Films
Distributed by Bonobostudio.

This film was supported in the context of ULTRAKORT, a collaboration between Netherlands Film Fund, VUE Cinemas and the Dutch Association of Arthouse Cinemas (NFO).