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ENI BRANDNER AUSTRIA
ERSATz
Tel: +43 699 1151 6696
E-mail: eni@chello.at
Intention
In my story I want to show a man, who easily ‘buys’
things, without looking behind their surface. By conforming
to uniformity of mass production instead of
using his skills to improvise and find new solutions -
anything is marketable with the right target audience,
no matter how useful it is. I want to play with the aesthetic
of a constantly monitored world and the voyeurism
it causes - surveillance and monitoring, also in the
sense of behavior that is instilled through propaganda
or advertisement.
Ersatz will have an approximate duration of 5-7 minutes
and will be made with stop motion and pixilation
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technique, shot partly in a real environment, partly on
green screen - which will be made to look like a realistic
environment through 3D compositing. The protagonist
as well as the objects, will be recorded and animated
in the real environment and on green screen.
The aesthetic is realistic, we can’t see it is a digitally
created environment, until the surreal elements appear,
when the layers start to shift and twist out of perspective
- a visualization of how easily pictures can be
manipulated and we need to look behind their surface,
before we believe in them.
Synopsis
Ersatz looks at the daily life of a human, that is increasingly
influenced by the effects of trying to consume
the instant happiness promised to him by convenience
products.
The more simple he tries to make his existence, the
more he suffers from some adverse effects: the objects
surrounding him begin to come to life instead of
him and, bit by bit, the human turns into a perfect but
hollow shell of his original self. Items and gadgets start
to appear out of nowhere on their own, growing and
changing into different versions of themselves, filling
the space up to its last corner, constantly moving and
transforming. Everything gets full of activity ...except
the human.
Will he be a victim of his own consumption? Or can he
break free amidst all of the commotion that is going on
around him?
PRODUCTION FACTS
Estimated Budget: 45.000 €
Amour Fou Filmproduktion
Looking for co-producer(s) in Animation,
Digital Compositing, Location/Studio
“A life taken over
by objects and
gadgets.”
Director Biography
Eni is a European filmmaker, animator and
visual artist. In her work she is interested
to reflect on and around social-critical thematics
and experiment with creating narratives
from fragmented visual elements.
After studying Multimedia Art (Salzburg/
Austria, 1999-2003) and Animation &
New Media (Zagreb/Croatia, 2003-2005),
she collaborated with directors and artists
from different disciplines as animator
and digital artist. After showing her first
film Granica successfully at more than
30 international Festivals receiving four
awards, she is currently based in Vienna,
working on her second animated experimental
short film Exhaustibility, which will
be finished in 2012.