AWARDS AND STATEMENTS / 12th StopTrik IFF
STOPTRIK 2022 MARIBOR AUDIENCE GRAND PRIX
Human Resources / Ressources Humaines
Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek (EMCA)
2022, France, 3'30''
Andy, followed by a friend who is filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him.
STOPTRIK MARIBOR AUDIENCE 2022 BORDERLANDS AWARD
Love, Dad / Milý tati
Diana Cam Van Nguyen (13ka / FAMU / nutprodukcia)
2021, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 12'46''
The author rediscovers the letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again.
STOPTRIK 2022 MARIBOR STUDENTS JURY
Stop motion award
‘Til We Meet Again
Taaskohtumine, Ülo Pikkov (Nukufilm)
2022, Estonia, 14'09''
The film refers to the tragic history of a small Ruhnu Island. Fearing for their lives, its entire population abandoned their homes while escaping the war in 1944. Decades later they had a chance to finally return, only to find out that the strangers had settled in.
Jury’s statement: When choosing our favourites, us three were looking for mainly three things: creativity, technical animation and above all else, how long it stayed in our heads. This retrospective story manages to capture the emotions of people who became strangers in their own home without using any spoken words. We were impressed with creative use of local materials, how the animation made them alive and how it made us discuss it longer than any other movie in the catalog. That is why our winner of this year's StopTrik is 'Till We Meet Again.
Borderlands Award
Us / Nós
Nelson Fernandes (The Stone and The Plot,
2021, Portugal, 5'
A journey through the conflicted human condition. War, loneliness, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.
Jury’s statement: A dreamy yet awakening animation which expresses various critical states of humanity. The animation read like a poetry and for us maintained a perfect line between experimental and narrative. The award for the borderlands competition programme goes to film called 'US' by Nelson Fernandes.
Stop motion special mention
Human Resources / Ressources Humaines
Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek (EMCA)
2022, France, 3'30''
Andy, followed by a friend who is filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him.
Jury’s statement: The Film in a very Charlie Kaufman and houmouros way displays absurdity of human existence and is asking a quite simple question? Is our purpose really much more great of that of a chair? Our special mentions goes to the Human Resources.
MARIBOR YOUNG AUDIENCE GRAND PRIX (group age 6-8 years old)
Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen / La Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen / La Soupe De Franzy
Ana Chubinidze (Folimage, Pocket Studio)
2021, France, Georgia, 8'30''
Lonely alien Chef Franzy discovers that her special pink soup is not just delicious, but also magical, when she shares it with starving creatures living on a strange planet.
MARIBOR YOUNG AUDIENCE GRAND PRIX (group age 12-14 years old)
Dagda's Harp
Daniel Quirke (Molly Denton)
2021, Ireland, UK, 2’13’’
Awakened by the retelling of his story, Dagda appears to a group of children, but the result of his spellbinding music isn’t quite as scary as they thought.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Urška Breznik, director of Pekarna magdalenske mreže, head producer of StopTrik IFF (Maribor, Slovenia)
Crab / Krab
Piotr Chmielewski (WJTeam)
2022, Poland / France, 8'42''
The sinking of the Titanic was a great catastrophe for most of its passengers. But there was individual who experienced it as a miracle.
Statement: The author shows that despite the strong presence of anthropomorphised animal characters in stop-motion animations, the latter can be an extremely suitable technique for exposing speciesism in our everyday interaction with animals. The author lets the viewers recognize the autonomy of the central character and recognises his inherent value and thus also allows the viewer to recognise the crab as a person who has its own purpose of existence, his own interests and strives for his own well-being.
Pavel Horáček, Programme Director of Anifilm IAFF (Liberec, Czech Republic)
Dog-Apartment / Koerkorter
Priit Tender (Nukufilm)
2022, Estonia, 14'07''
Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Statement: It's like we're watching some of the classical animation from the past, but then we realize that this "old classic" still seems to be uncomfortably current. Technical excellence, elaborate details, typical weird humour and the overall obscurity of the situations are, of course, an indispensable part. My special mention goes to Koerkorter / Dog-apartment by Priit Tender.
Marcin Giżycki, Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Warsaw, Poland) and Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, USA)
Of Wood
Owen Klatte (Glockamorra Investments, Llc)
2022, USA, 6'59''
Created by progressively carving images in a large round of wood, enhanced with wooden objects coming out of the wood.
Statement: For innovative technique and great visual effect.
Alexis Hunot, Artistic Director of Paris International Animation Film Festival
Eat Your Carrots
Laura Stewart
2022, Canada, 3'11''
Carrots are good for your eyes. Maybe too good. “Eat Your Carrots” is a short stop motion animation about a girl who finds an eyeball growing on her arm.
Statement: It was a difficult choice, because you had great films not only in the competition but also in the other sections. But we need more surreal and absurd films to survive in the world we live in. So I decided to give my special mention to an absurd film, in appearance. Because almost in all absurd films, behind the story you can have a lot of meanings depending on how you look at them, And this one is like that. I love its simplicity, its rhythm. And the character is so well depicted in her small movements, the last shot opens so many doors in just a small blinking of one eye. And let's face it, who doesn't want to join this great dance with the character and this incredible Eyes-Monster … My special award goes to Eat you carrots by Laura Stewart.
Krste Gospodinovski, Flipbook Film Festival (Skopje, Macedonia)
Human Resources / Ressources Humaines
Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek (EMCA)
2022, France, 3'30''
Andy, followed by a friend who is filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him.
Statement: When we were asked to present the programme on StopTrik, both I and Zarko Ivanov decided that it would be a students’ films programme because the students' films are really brave, courageous, free from the production pressure, and they can really show meanings of animation. My choice is exactly this - a really brave film, showing how a good story can be told in 3 minutes.
Pedro Serrazina, Professor at the University of Lusófona (Lisbon, Portugal)
The Pink Jacket / O Casaco Rosa
Mónica Santos (Animais Avpl, Vivement Lundi!, Um Segundo Filmes)
2022, Portugal, 8'
A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up his sleeve. In the comfort of his home, Casaco Rosa uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system.
Statement: It is not often that we see political AND musical animation films so, in the strange times we live in, I decided to distinguish the playful approach used to expose one of the many sinister characters from the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-74). This was a torturer who was convicted but never actually served his sentence in jail. We need to remember the past, so that we don’t commit the same mistakes, and those who attempt against freedom and democracy are convicted for their crimes. My special mention goes to Monica Santos, director of the Pink Jacket.