When a little bird suddenly drops dead in its cage, all eyes are on the cat. But as this skillfully choreographed animation demonstrates with a delightfully macabre effect, sometimes even one’s best efforts to put things right only make it all worse.
Catastrophe!
Catastrophe!
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Jamille van Wijngaarden
- Script: Jamille van Wijngaarden
- Cinematography: Mick van Dantzig
- Editing: Jurriaan van Nimwegen, Erik Sluiter
- Sound: Randall MacDonald
- Music: Hans Nieuwenhuijsen
- Actors: Wimie Wilhelm, Ricky Weissman (voices)
- Production: Keplerfilm
- Producers: Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen
- Art Direction: Raphaël El Khaddar, Bart Otto (Animation Studio: Storm Post Production Lead Animator: Sem Assink)
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: The Netherlands
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 2΄
- Contact: Some Shorts, info@someshorts.com
Jamille van Wijngaarden
Jamille van Wijngaarden is a film director from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During her years at the Film Academy of Amsterdam, her short film Snow White won the award at the Prix Europe Festival in the category “Languages through Lenses” (Berlin, 2012). In 2016, she directed the satirical comedy TV show Infantilio. This series went on to become a great online success and was selected for the Input TV Festival 2017 in Greece. At the end of 2016 she co-directed the surreal, tragicomic virtual reality film Ashes to Ashes. The critically acclaimed first Dutch VR film won the VR Award in March 2017 and is now being screened around the world at many international film festivals.
Filmography
2014 Happily Never After (short)
2017 Ashes to Ashes (short)
2017 Catastrophe! (short)
2017 Ashes to Ashes (short)
2017 Catastrophe! (short)