My Ex Boyfriend (Suecia)
(Mi Ex-novio)
Presentada en la 5 edición del festival.
Categoría: Cortometraje Internacional
Duración: 0:03:25.
Director: Cissi Efraimsson.
Producción: Cissi Efraimsson.
Guión: Cissi Efraimsson.
Cast: Jenny Nirgends, Oliver Levine.
Sinopsis:
Esta comedia surrealista en stop motion cuenta la historia de dos amantes que se separan mientras uno sufre una extraña transformación. Cuando el agua comienza a salir sin control del novio, la pareja se enfrenta a un dilema. La chica finalmente lo encuentra completamente transformado en una fuente escultural.
This surreal comedy stop motion film tells a story of two lovers growing apart as one undergoes a strange transformation. When water begins to pour uncontrollably out of the boyfriend, the couple is faced with a dilemma. The girl finally finds him fully transformed into a statuesque fountain.
Cissi Efraimsson is a stop motion animation director from Stockholm. She’s currently enrolled in the third year of the MFA program in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. She received a BA in Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Efraimsson always work with stories that tilt reality towards the surrealistic/supernatural. Aesthetics are heightened and colorful and every detail is meaningful. Efraimsson has a background in music as the singer and drummer in the Swedish bands Vulkano and Those Dancing Days with whom she has toured the world and released several albums with. 2018 she received a Swedish Grammy nomination for best music video.