Blackening Skies

Directed by Elenor Kopka

Carried by a pleasantly laid-back jazzy score, these seven minutes of animation offer a joyful journey through an elegantly black-and-white world of forms oscillating between figuration and abstraction. We meet strange frogs, caterpillars, and other critters moving in such perfect synchrony with the music that they could never seem real to us, as they take the shape of ornamental structures. And coming back again and again is the moon, with clouds gliding by. (tr)