Film Programme
RED-END AND THE SEEMINGLY SYMBIOTIC SOCIETY
animation , Mon, 18:30
Netherlands, 2009, 15'
Director: Robin Noorda (male) & Bethany de Forest (female)
Producer: Erik Schut
Director of photography: Robin Noorda
Writer: Robin Noorda
Animation: Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest
Composer: Phantom Frank
Editor: Robin Noorda
Synopsis: Synopsis - short Arthropod Tales - epic one Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society Ants gather sugar cubes in an icy marl cave in order to build a palace. This turns out to be a nursery to cultivate larvae. These grubs grow in a cave and reveal themselves as bizarre, marching gluttons called Cricusts. The ant Red-end is different and tries an experiment resulting in one of the Cricusts being different as well. While the other Cricusts eat all the green in a military way and fly to the next forage field, the different one takes it easy in a field of raspberries. The greedy group soon turns all green landscapes into a barren desert with fatal consequences. Except for the raspberry field where Red-end keeps an eye on his big friend finally enabling them to walk together into the future. A 4K Digital Cinema stopmotion animation. No dialogue
Director: Robin Noorda (male) & Bethany de Forest (female)
Biography Robin Noorda (1959 Laren, the Netherlands) studied Audiovisual design, Photography and Animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. His traineeships were at the graphic department of the NOS (Dutch Public Broadcasting Foundation) and the Toonder Animation Studios. Since then, he has been active as a designer, animator, filmmaker and producer for his own production company Morphosis. He has also been giving lectures, courses and works as an advisor for various institutions in the film- and animation sector. Biography At the Art Academy of Utrecht, Bethany de Forest (1966, Stoneham Mass, USA) started making installations of surreal worlds and recorded those photographically. She wants to create the feeling that these sets are life-size and that you can actually walk around in them. Pinhole-photography was the best way to generate this feeling. In her unusual and fairylike worlds she takes common, small objects out of context and scale, resulting in immense spaces and metamorphosed realities. Bethany has been active as a visual artist, photographer, designer, VJ and art director, had many exhibits and published numerous works.