StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021: The Verdict

The weekend of June 26th-27th was marked with the International Stop Motion Competition, The Borderlands Competition, and Panorama screenings of StopTrik IFF 2020 programme at the Cinema Bodo in Lodz (Poland). This long-awaited festival replica was viewed by the regular audiences and the Lodz Students Jury (Oliwia Kalinowska, Antonina Hernas, Szymon Szul) who all presented their verdict on Sunday evening… Find the winners below!

Lodz Students Jury Award in the International Stop Motion Competition, StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021

Winter in the Rainforest / Talv vihmametsas
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (Moon Birds Studios OÜ, Nukufilm, Carabás Estudio & Art Shot)
2019, Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico, 8'53''

Jury Statement:

For an atemporal depiction of a cycle of life – the one which is artificial as well as the natural one. For the awe-inspiring execution of the film.

Lodz Students Jury Special Mention in the International Stop Motion Competition, StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021

Nod. Wink. Horse.
Ollie Magee (Royal College of Art)
2020, UK, 4'42''

Jury Statement:

For this what cannot be seen and for this what is located beyond, even if it is right in front of our eyes. For polysensory dispersion and simultaneously ascetic execution.

Lodz Audience Award in the International  Stop Motion Competition, StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021

The Flood / Wyszła z brzegów
Sofya Nabok (Likaon)
2020, Poland, 9'20''

Lodz Students Jury Award in the Borderlands Competition, StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021

Microcassette - The Smallest Cassette I've Ever Seen / Mikrokazeta - najmanja kazeta koju sam ikad vidio
Igor Bezinović, Ivana Pipal (Bonobostudio)
2020, Croatia, Serbia, 19'15''

Jury Statement:

For presenting the essence of the image without which the voice remains only another unknown. For aesthetically delaying an evanescence of the artefacts that surround us.

Lodz Students Jury Special Mention in the Borderlands Competition, StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021

Hello World
Alexander Isaenko
2020, Ukraine, 8'30''

Jury Statement:

For a unique and distancing vision of the world which dissolves in a hybrid way in the future as if it was a palimpsest without the past.

Lodz Audience Award in The Borderlands Competition, StopTrik Lodz 2020 in 2021

Beyond Noh
Patrick Smith (Kaori Ishida, Patrick Smith)
2020, USA, Japan, 4'