Four Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto
Stop motion short in 2D and 3D by Richard Raskin.
Plot
Warsaw, 1942. The 8-year old boy Samek is sitting in the kitchen of an apartment and is drawing a picture of Hitler who gets pigeon crap on his head. Shocked the mother throws the drawing into the heating stove and sends Samek down to the courtyard. Through a hole in the wall he sees a carrot. He is trying to reach it with a piece of wire. Two SS-soldiers on the other side of the wall notice him. One of them puts his gun into the hole and fires. Blood runs through the hole. They move along unaffected.
The project
The project is a collaboration between scriptwriter Richard Raskin, the animation studio JA Film in Aarhus, and the producer Ellen Riis from Basmati film.
The development phase has been financed with support from Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, the pools and lotto means from Ministry of Education and Open Workshop. Additional funding has been secured from New Danish Screen.
The film will be in black and white, with one exception – a red stripe of blood at the end. The B&W visual side will give the film a photographic and raw visual expression. Backgrounds and environments will be in 3D while the characters are hand drawn, which will create an interesting tension in the picture.
Plot
Warsaw, 1942. The 8-year old boy Samek is sitting in the kitchen of an apartment and is drawing a picture of Hitler who gets pigeon crap on his head. Shocked the mother throws the drawing into the heating stove and sends Samek down to the courtyard. Through a hole in the wall he sees a carrot. He is trying to reach it with a piece of wire. Two SS-soldiers on the other side of the wall notice him. One of them puts his gun into the hole and fires. Blood runs through the hole. They move along unaffected.
The project
The project is a collaboration between scriptwriter Richard Raskin, the animation studio JA Film in Aarhus, and the producer Ellen Riis from Basmati film.
The development phase has been financed with support from Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, the pools and lotto means from Ministry of Education and Open Workshop. Additional funding has been secured from New Danish Screen.
The film will be in black and white, with one exception – a red stripe of blood at the end. The B&W visual side will give the film a photographic and raw visual expression. Backgrounds and environments will be in 3D while the characters are hand drawn, which will create an interesting tension in the picture.
