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Dominican Rep. Atraksion (S)
- Original title
- Atraksion
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 10 min.
- Country
Belgium- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Animation
- Music
- Cinematography
- Animation, Lou Demeyere
- Producer
- Genre
- Animation | Surrealism. Short Film (Animated)
- Synopsis
- On a parched and desolate landscape, a group of shackled prisoners walk in eternal limbo around a borderless prison yard until one day when an inmate spots a ray of light emanating from beyond the view of a steep and treacherous mountain and decides to climb towards its source in the naïve hope that liberation awaits at the end of the trail. Returning to the distilled, monochromatic palette of Goldframe and Operation X-70, Atraksion represents Servais' introduction to digital post-processing. Adapting the allegorical flight of Icarus into a modern day metaphor for self-imprisonment (a theme that also pervades the vaguely mythological Pegasus), Servais implicitly (and incisively) embraces the virtues of new technology through the prisoners' realization of a transformative paradigm shift, to create a metaphoric, yet personal tale of re-invention, creativity, experimentation, and artistic fearlessness.
- Awards
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2001: Valladolid International Film Festival: Jury Special Prize2002: Fantasporto: Grand Prize of European Fantasy Short Film in Silver, International Fantasy Film Award
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