A Collision of Sorts

The world is not round, but flat as a pancake, at least in this Google Earth-grafted animation. There is movement, but no contact. Until an accident happens.

Flat lampposts, flat cars, flat high-rises. In a landscape of pasted satellite images, every object is as flat as its shadow. Welcome to the world according to Google Earth. In this computer animation, sounds and voices lead you to suspect people and animals are present. You can hear them breathe and rustle. Moving dots talk about their fears, about their motives to come to the city and about all the people they may meet there. And yet they never really seem to meet. Until an accident happens.

Credits

Director

Esther Polak
Ivar van Bekkum

Producer

Esther Polak
Ivar van Bekkum

Executive producer

Julia Guerrero

Montage

Rob Das

Sound Design

Arno Peeters

Muziek

Huba de Graaff

Production company

PVB

Distributor NL

Title: A Collision of Sorts
Year: 2017
Duration : 17 minutes
Type: Short Feature
Edition: NFF 2017

Drama Animatie

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