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Director: RAFAEL MAYRHOFER Animation: MOTIPHE http://www.motiphe.org Director/animator Rafael Mayrhofer, aka 1/3 of the Austrian trio of filmmakers known as Motiphe (with Florian Juri and Clemens Wirth): "Whenever I can I try to experiment with something new so I don't quite know where it will take me. On this project I went all in with this approach.

"The concept from the beginning was that it would be impossible for the first time viewer to grasp all the information given. I was aiming for a balance between overloading the viewer with information but not be too annoying. For me this was more of a writing and editing project than it was an animation.

"I rewrote a lot of stuff during editing whilst working with the incredibly talented voice actor Beau Stephenson on acting out the narrator. Until the very end of production, the plan was to end the film with what were presumably Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's last words: 'mehr licht' or 'mehr nicht'. Which mean respectively 'more light' or 'that's it'. He mumbled a bit, so historians still fight over which of the two is the correct one.

"I worked at Buck and Hornet and certainly drew a lot of inspiration from the incredibly talented artists that I worked with there. I had my hands in live action, studied 3D animation and I am a self-taught stop motion animator.

"I started experimenting with stop motion as a pretty young fella and never stopped doing so. To me it's the most fun and exciting way to animate. Besides after a day of animating stop motion, your back really feels like you worked hard.

"With this short film I tried to get simple surreal jokes like Erwin Wurm's artwork combined with some tangible design like Julien Vallée's. I actually would call what I do in stop motion: stop motion graphics. I rarely use characters and don't do character driven plots but try to create episodic moody pieces or abstract narratives like with this short.

"By the way, the orange thing with bite marks on the green background is soap -- which I took a bite off of for every frame. I didn't swallow, but my mouth was quite irritated and I didn't have much ability to taste anything for the rest of the day." Director: Rafael Mayrhofer Script: Katharina Pichler, Rafael Mayrhofer Voice actor: Beau Stephenson 2D animation: Katja Flachberger Sound design: Irad Lee, Rafael Mayrhofer

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