Play: both a verb and a noun — and despite the world’s disasters, an artist insists on both. A
story told through a filmmaker’s art, inspired by Bach’s timeless music and painted on rolls of
toilet paper in an homage to the tradition of painting directly on 35 mm film.
"One night, I built my version of an editing machine and began animating on toilet paper. It was
my reaction to everything that was in the air – the uncertainty, the erratic human behavior and the
overwhelming feeling of being lost. I created my set of rules, which helped me imitate the process
of animating directly on film stock. One such rule was to not watch the animation in progress until
an entire roll of toilet paper was completely filled with images. I did not use a storyboard or follow
a specific idea; instead, I followed the feeling that I need to animate another roll of toilet paper,
and then another and another. As the animation progressed, a theme crept in: An artist tries to
play as a war rages somewhere – abstract at first, before it actually enters their realm."
Anna Samo
Animated Short | Germany 2024 | 1:2.35 | 7.20 min | DCP | ProRes 422 HQ | H264 | Dolby Digital 5.1
Annecy International Animation Festival – Annecy, France
International competition, June 2024