Nederlands Film Festival

Animation film in Art Nouveau style, in which a young woman seems to be the only one worrying about ever more animal species becoming extinct.

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman moves against a flow of indifferent passers-by, to make drawings in the natural history museum of the ever increasing number of extinct animal species. When a global pandemic strikes, her compassion with nature is no protection against a bacterial infection. Her situation deteriorates, and it seems as if nature sends her a message through her hallucinations. Is man doomed to claim his place among the skeletons of dinosaurs and primal man in the museum? And is there any comfort in the acceptance of this fate?

Credits

Director

Producer

Script

Sound editing

Muziek

Cast (bijrol)

Bart van der Schaaf
Anne-May de Lijser
Peter Baker

Animation

Arjan Brentjes

Distributor NL

KLIK Distribution

Title: Sad Beauty
Year: 2020
Duration : 10 minutes
Category: Short Feature
Edition: NFF 2020

AnimatieKunst & CultuurNatuur & MilieuDramaGezondheidMaatschappij

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