Distopic
SYNOPSIS
The ruthless minotaur rules the labyrinth, determined to serve his narcissistic interests and humiliate its population - until the day the citizens decide to change the labyrinth in which they live.
Bio-filmography of the directors
He holds a degree in Fine Arts (Multimedia Branch) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and a Master's degree in Animation and Illustration from IPCA. His first experimental animated short film, "Patrioska," was selected for around 40 international festivals, including Animafest Zagreb, Cinanima and FEST New Directors Film Festival. He created the animation for the biographical short film about Matéo Maximoff, a Roma writer and activist who survived the Holocaust, which is part of the monument commemorating the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust. He currently resides in Berlin, where he works as a director, artist and teacher in the fields of animation and visual arts.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
These days we hear again about the need to erect walls between human beings and nations, and the resurgence of this divisive rhetoric leads us to explore the idea of the labyrinth and the minotaur in this film – how can this myth help us to think about the strangeness of our current times? Unlike the original myth in which the labyrinth imprisons and suppresses the power of the minotaur, in this film it is the minotaur who dominates the labyrinth, which presents itself as a colossal metropolis that imprisons its inhabitants. What will life be like inside such a labyrinth?
crew
Director, Scriptwriter, Graphics:
Tiago Araújo
Producer:
Mário Gajo de Carvalho
datasheet
10 minutes / Image: 16x9 / Som: Stereo / Format: HD / Animation