“Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.”
a film by STEPHEN IRWIN //
sound design by KEITH DUNCAN //
supported by ROOFTOP FILMS //
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GRAND PRIZE – New Chitose Airport Int’l Animation Festival 2020
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Sundance Film Festival 2020
BEST OF THE FEST – London International Animation Festival 2020
BEST UK FILM – London International Animation Festival 2020
HONOURABLE MENTION – Minimalen Short Film Festival 2021
“Survival, motherhood, death and beyond to alternate dimensions, parallel lives – we’ve never seen anything like it before, truly unique… Propelled by a triumphant orchestral score it takes us into the depths of weirdness where birth and death meet in an endless cycle of rainbows, blood and breast-milk.”
LIAF Jury (Sophie Koko-Gate, Chris Shepherd, Max Hattler)
“Exceptionally surprising and darkly funny, this animated curiosity loops and warps a message of monochromatic destruction and rainbow creation into a warning about nature – our own and Earth’s. In an orchestral explosion of collapse and colour, this hypnotic trip shows life and death as a queer, surreal and grotesque pattern of regeneration and degeneration that affects both land and body.”
Minimalen Short Film Festival Jury
Screenings:
Silhouette Short Film Festival, July 2021
Bridge Film Festival, Verona, 14-17 July 2021
ShorTS International Film Festival (In Competition), 1-10 July 2021
Short Waves Festival, Poland, 14-20 June 2021
Zubroffka ISFF (In Competition), 9-13 June 2021
British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin (In Competition), 27 May – 2 June 2021
Animatricks (In Competition), 20-25 May 2021
Kaboom Animation Festival (In Competition), 31 March – 4 April 2021
Animac Spain, 25 February – 7 March 2021
Black Movie, Geneva, 22-31 January 2021
Minimalen Short Film Festival (In Competition), 12-17 January 2021
London Short Film Festival, 15-23 January 2021
Bogotá Short Film Festival (In Competition), 8-15 December 2020
Icona Animation Festival (In Competition), 4-6 December 2020
Les Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal, 1-6 December 2020
Animateka Int’l Animated Film Festival (Best of World), 30 Nov – 9 Dec 2020
Animasivo Mexico (In Competition), 27-29 November 2020
London Animation Festival (In Competition), 27 Nov – 6 December 2020
New Chitose Airport Int’l Animation Festival (In Competition), 20-23 November 2020
Manchester Animation Festival, 17-19 November 2020
This is England, Rouen (In Competition), 16-24 Nov 2020
Animest Romania (In Competition), 9-15 November 2020
Leeds International Film Festival (In Competition), 3-16 November 2020
REX Animation Film Festival (In Competition), 29 Oct – 1 Nov 2020
Denver Film Festival (In Competition), 22 Oct – 8 Nov 2020
Banjaluka IAFF (In Competition), 24-28 October 2020
Uppsala Short Film Festival (In Competition), 19-25 October 2020
BFI London Film Festival (In Competition), 7-18 October 2020
Sapporo Short Fest (Drunken Night Programme), 14-18 October 2020
Milwaukee Film Festival (In Competition), 15-29 October 2020
Riga International Film Festival (In Competition), 15-25 October 2020
DFF Oakland (In Competition), 4-11 October 2020
GLAS 2020 Showcase, 5-9 October 2020
Animafest Zagreb (In Competition), 28 Sept-3 Oct 2020
Loudoun Arts Film Festival (In Competition), 10-19 September 2020
Sydney Underground Film Festival, 10-20 September 2020
Fantoche (In Competition), 1-6 September 2020
Fest Anča (In Competition), 27-30 August 2020
Concorto Film Festival (Deep Night section), 22-29 August 2020
Film Festival della Lessinia (In Competition), 21-30 August 2020
IFFY (Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti), 20-22 August 2020
Rincon Int’l Film Festival (In Competition), 7 August – 6 September 2020
Melbourne International Film Festival (In Competition), 6-23 August 2020
Sundance London, 7-9 August 2020
Kyiv Int’l Short Film Festival (In Competition), 5-9 August 2020
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), (In Competition) 9-16 July 2020
Edinburgh International Film Festival (In Competition), 17-28 June 2020
Krakow Film Festival (In Competition), 31 May-7 June 2020
Vienna Shorts (In Competition), 28 May-2 June 2020
Flatpack (In Competition), 5-10 May 2020
Go Short (In Competition), 1-5 April 2020
Glas Animation Festival (In Competition), 19-22 March 2020
Tampere Film Festival (In Competition), 4-8 March 2020
IFFR (Quay Brothers screening), 25 & 28 January 2020
Sundance Film Festival (In Competition), 23 Jan – 3 Feb 2020 *PREMIERE*
