20 short films are selected for the festival’s annual competition programme for animated short films from the Nordic and Baltic region. The films compete for the Golden Gunnar for best Nordic-Baltic Animated Short, Best Children’s Film, the Grand Prix and the Audience Award. The Short Film programme holds ten shorts with great artistic effort, from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Estonia. Films accepted into Fredrikstad Animation Festival’s Short Film Competition programme are eligible to be nominated for the European Animation Awards.
Age Limit: 12
🏆 Winner of the Grand Prix! 🏆
Jury Statement:
Freeze Frame takes the viewer on a journey through the deepest layers of arctic ice showing gradually more complex beings getting excavated from dark waters. The animals trapped in ice cubes while in motion, show the history of all living things. The animation technique and the storyline perfectly match the contrast between persistence and fragility. The jury viewed this film as a dystopian metaphor of human greed and thoughtlessness.
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.
Soetkin Verstegen is an independent film maker and animator from Brussels. Next to her personal work, she works as a freelancer for stop-motion films and series, and teaches animation workshops.
- Year2019
- Runtime5:00
- CountryFinland
- DirectorSoetkin Verstegen
- ProducerSoetkin Verstegen
- AnimatorSoetkin Verstegen
- Sound DesignAndrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok
20 short films are selected for the festival’s annual competition programme for animated short films from the Nordic and Baltic region. The films compete for the Golden Gunnar for best Nordic-Baltic Animated Short, Best Children’s Film, the Grand Prix and the Audience Award. The Short Film programme holds ten shorts with great artistic effort, from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Estonia. Films accepted into Fredrikstad Animation Festival’s Short Film Competition programme are eligible to be nominated for the European Animation Awards.
Age Limit: 12
🏆 Winner of the Grand Prix! 🏆
Jury Statement:
Freeze Frame takes the viewer on a journey through the deepest layers of arctic ice showing gradually more complex beings getting excavated from dark waters. The animals trapped in ice cubes while in motion, show the history of all living things. The animation technique and the storyline perfectly match the contrast between persistence and fragility. The jury viewed this film as a dystopian metaphor of human greed and thoughtlessness.
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.
Soetkin Verstegen is an independent film maker and animator from Brussels. Next to her personal work, she works as a freelancer for stop-motion films and series, and teaches animation workshops.
- Year2019
- Runtime5:00
- CountryFinland
- DirectorSoetkin Verstegen
- ProducerSoetkin Verstegen
- AnimatorSoetkin Verstegen
- Sound DesignAndrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok