The making of Kalorien (Calories)
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At BIAFF 2015 Antje Gleißberg won 5-Stars and
the Best Animation prize with Kalorien (Calories)
![Still from 'Calories'.](calories/calories-1.jpg)
I wanted to bring one of
my creations to life. |
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The film Calories was created
during the one-week International Animated Film Workshop
called ANIMA. I only made a few corrections and compositing
subtleties after the animated film workshop.
In the run-up to the ANIMA I was desperately looking for a
story that I could realize as an animation during the
workshop. One night, after all the calories probably also
worked straight through the night quietly in my closet, I had
this idea.
Somehow sweets mostly play a role in my film
ideas, probably because I can´t get enough of them. Crocheting
small figures is another passion of mine and I wanted to bring
one of my creations to life. I therefore decided to give my
puppet animation a special look and so I started to design
characters and props and crocheted them. It was quite complex.
I crocheted this almost the whole week before the ANIMA.
For shooting, it was sometimes necessary to cheat a little.
For example the chocolate toast at the beginning of the movie
was shot in reverse. The chocolate was therefore not crocheted
frame by frame onto the toast but split stitch by stitch and
the scene finally played backwards.
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The complete sound design was created by Markus
Pötschke, a very talented musician from Dresden, who
set music to the films of the ANIMA participants for many years
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![Still from 'Calories'.](calories/calories-6.jpg)
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Since 1982, over 30 young animators from Germany,
Poland and from a third country such as Russia, Ukraine,
Austria, the Czech Republic and Georgia come to Dresden
to attend the International Animated Film Workshop
ANIMA. The ANIMA is a meeting of young people between 12
to 26 years as part of a creative animated film
workshop. The aim of the workshop is to know and
understand young people learn in the intensive study of
animation in a circle of like-minded people. The
participants work for a week under professional guidance
on their animated film ideas.
The head, mentor and soul of the ANIMA is Rolf
Birn.
[http://fantasia-dresden.de/anima
- in German, but try it through Google Translate.]
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The Monster and also the Calories have an armature (bendy metal
skeleton) inside. That's why I sometimes thought I would break my
fingers while trying to crochet around the wire shape.
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I studied Media Communication in Chemnitz
and I´m working now at Sächsischer Kinder- und Jugendfilmdienst
e.V. This is the organizer of the SCHLINGEL International Film
Festival for Children and Young Audiences. Amongst other things,
I´m a member of the selection committee for animted short
films. If you are interested, you´ll find more information about
the festival in English here:
www.ff-schlingel.de.
- Antje Gleißberg
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