Jury Statement: ARTE and the ZDF are happy to give this year’s ARTE short film award to an artistically impressive animated film. With its naturalistic aesthetics and its expressive colourful images, the animated film manages to deeply sink into the minds of its viewers. In a fantastic fairy tale world in which people wear animal heads, the malicious master of a splendid mansion plays a devilishly hypnotic music. A play on the abuse of power and the crossing of boundaries which is both surprising and fascinating. We congratulate the director and author Jan Koester on his film ›The Pine Tree Villa‹. http://festival.shortfilm.com/en/award-winners-2016/
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Eine Villa mit Pinien
Vogel und Löwe sind auf Eroberungstour. Der Einbruch in eine leerstehende Villa wird zum Kampf gegen einen gefährlichen Sog, der die beiden an ihre Grenzen bringt. Ein Märchen über den mühsamen Weg in die Selbstbestimmung. / An uninhabited villa, that looks like it was never left to decay. Lion and Bird break into the house to find out about the secret. Right away they get to feel the power that keeps the villa alive. A fairytale about the struggle with self-determination.
Jan Koester is an animation director working at the Talking Animals Animation Studio in Berlin.
Short Film, 12:58 min, 3D stereoscopic, 2016
produced by Christine Haupt, directed and animated by Jan Koester