Stilleven met vrouw, thee en brief / Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter

Tess Martin | The Netherlands / 2022 / 2' | experimental / eksperimenalni

Director and scriptwriter TESS MARTIN /

producers FLEUR KNOPPERTS, DENIS VASLIN /

director of photography MATIJA PEKIĆ /

animator MARIKE VERBIEST /

performers IRIS SCHUTGEVAAR, AMY GALE

A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes the border between the past and the present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time by portraying one woman caught in the middle.

Awards
Honorable Mention, Minimalen Short Film Festival 2024

Festivals
Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands (21/9-30/9/2022)
Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, USA (18/4-22/4/2023)
Animatricks International Animation Festival, Helsinki, Finland (18/5-20/5/2023)
Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival, Isola, Slovenia (7/6-11/6/2023)
Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy (14/6-18/6/2023)
ShorTS International Film Festival, Trieste, Italy (1/7-8/7/2023)
Walla Walla Movie Crush, Seattle, USA (7/7-9/7/2023)
Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, USA (13/7-16/7/2023)
Animaphix International Animated Film Festival, Palermo, Italy (25/7-30/7/2023)
Animation Block Party, New York, USA (18/8-20/8/2023)
Malatesta Short Film Festival, Cesena, Italy (1/9-4-9/2023)
Stoptrik International Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia (27/9-1/10/2023), Lodz, Poland (8/12-10/12/2023)
Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston, USA (27/9-1/10/2023)
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada (4/10-8/10/2023)
Primanima World Festival of First Animations, Budaörs, Hungary (11/10-14/10/2023)
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden (23/10-29/10/2023)
Feinaki Beijing Animation Week, China (10/11-13/11/2023)
Canberra Short Film Festival, Australia (10/11-26/11/2023)
accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival, Napoli, Italy (12/11-19/11/2023)
Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy (14/11-19/11/2023)
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy (15/11-19/11/2023)
Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia (27/11-3/12/2023)
Screener Short Films, London, UK (29/11/2023)
Tindirindis International Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania (30/11-3/12/2023)
Interface Video Art Festival, Rijeka, Croatia (5/12-10/12/2023)
Alternative Film Video, Belgrade, Serbia (6/12-9/12/2023)
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway (23/1-28/1/2024)
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma, USA (26/4-28/4/2024)