What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey...
What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.
Crew
Director: Pascal Schelbli
VFX Supervisor: Marc Angele
Producers: Aleksandra Todorovic, Tina Vest
Underwater Cinematography: David Iskender Dinçer
Creature TD: Noel Winzen
Lead TD: Lukas Gotkowski
Animation: Noel Winzen, Pascal Schelbli
Lead Rigging: Noel Winzen
Rigging: Lukas Gotkowski · Seyed Ahmad Hosseini
Modeling: Pascal Schelbli, Fynn Große-Bley, Noel Winzen
Additional Modeling: Paul Golter, Mitja Öhm
Lead Sculpting: Fynn Große-Bley
Sculpting: Noel Winzen, Pascal Schelbli
Texturing: Marc Angele, Pascal Schelbli
Lighting/Shading: Marc Angele
FX/Simulation: Lukas Gotkowski, Noel Winzen, Tim Markgraf
Compositing: Marc Angele, Pascal Schelbli
Pipeline: Marc Angele
Storyboard/Animatic/Previs/Character Design: Pascal Schelbli
Editing: Pascal Schelbli
Additional Editing: Daniela Schramm Moura
Music: Alexander Wolf David, Petteri Sainio
Orchestration & Additional Composer: Meike Katrin Stein
Orchestra: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
Sound Design & Mixing: Robin Harff
Director, writer, animator: Soetkin Verstegen
Sound: Andrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok
With the support of
Akademie...
Director, writer, animator: Soetkin Verstegen
Sound: Andrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok
With the support of
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
Saari Residency - Kone Foundation, Finland
Atelier 105 residency - Light Cone, France
2019
Awards:
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2020 - Special Jury Prize Lab
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2020 - Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film
Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France 2020 - Jury Distinction
Fantoche International Animation Festival, Switzerland, 2020 - High Risk Award
Animafest Zagreb, Croatia, 2020 - Golden Zagreb Award
Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Noway, 2020 - Grand Prix
Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia, 2020 - Grand Prix
Monstra Animation Festival, Portugal, 2020 - Grand Prix
Warsaw International Animation Festival, Poland, 2020 - Grand Prix
Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020 - Grand Prix
Supertoon International Animation Festival, Croatia, 2020 - Grand Prix
Black Maria Film Festival, USA, 2020 - Best Animation
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Germany, 2020 - Best Animation
Animakom Bilbao, Spain, 2020 - Jury's Special Award
Filmzeitkaufbeuren, Germany, 2020 - Innovationspreis
Toronto Arthouse Film Festival, Canada, 2020 - Best Animated Short Film
Shorts that are not pants, Canada, 2020 - Best Animated Short
Featured on:
Short of the Week:
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/12/29/freeze-frame/
Booooooom:
https://tv.booooooom.com/2021/01/06/freeze-frame-soetkin-verstegen
Colossal:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/freeze-frame-soetkin-verstegen/
Stash:
https://www.stashmedia.tv/soetkin-verstegen-animates-stop-motion-ice-in-freeze-frame-short-film/
Schlosspost:
https://schloss-post.com/freeze-frame/
Animation week:
https://animation-week.com/freeze-frame/
Testkammer:
https://testkammer.com/2020/12/18/freeze-frame-2019/
"Hacking for the Commons", this 87 minute long documentary takes us to meet with those who, from India to the United...
"Hacking for the Commons", this 87 minute long documentary takes us to meet with those who, from India to the United States via Europe, are experimenting with the emancipation tools of "free software" in order to bring concrete solutions in a multitude of fields in which collective practices known as "open" - thus "non-proprietary" - are spreading : in agriculture, with "free" seeds, in health, with Open Source medicines, or in education, thanks to a free access to knowledge...
Resistants of the "Free" software field see it as a philosophical and political issue, as much as a societal choice, while the contributory and emancipatory practices of "Free" software are beginning to spread far beyond the IT field alone, for the benefice of the Commons...
"Hacking for the Commons" (87') WILL AVAILABLE ON VIMEO-VOD ONLY FOR THE DURATION OF THE COVID-LOCKDOWN, FOLLOWED BY THE CANCELLATION OF ALL PUBLIC SCREENINGS OF THIS FILM AFTER CLOSURE OF MOST CINEMAS AND CULTURAL PLACES, WORLDWIDE...
Watch the first tour we did back in 2015! https://youtu.be/jSNc13cmknEIn Episode 3 of Permaculture Tours we revisit...
Watch the first tour we did back in 2015! https://youtu.be/jSNc13cmknEIn Episode 3 of Permaculture Tours we revisit the amazing Limestone Permaculture Farm. ...
A documentary-style film about the most formidable species in our oceans: plastic. Using cinematic footage, alluring...
A documentary-style film about the most formidable species in our oceans: plastic. Using cinematic footage, alluring descriptions, powerful music and a well-known voiceover, this sequence illuminates the frightening truth about today’s oceans.
PRODUCTION
VO: Morgan Freeman
Company Name: Spacestation
Director: Brian Schulz
Director of Photography: Chris Bryan
Executive Producer: Melanie Paul
Executive Producer: Matthew Mills
Production Manager: Ellie Cano
Production Assistant: Allie Fuller
Post-Production Supervisor: Marni Ellis
Editor: Sharika Ajaikumar
Assistant Editor: Chang Wang
Diving Services Director: Robbie Gonzalez
Diving Services Coordinator: Giovanni Gonzalez
Safety Diver: Daniel Alamilla
Safety Diver: Felipe Ancona
Safety Diver: Chuck
GOODBY, SILVERSTEIN, & PARTNERS
Co-Chairmen: Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein
Chief Creative Officer: Margaret Johnson
Associate Creative Director: Hanna Wittmark
Associate Creative Director: Kate Baynham
Art Director: Eleanor Rask
Copywriter: Trevor Joplin
Design Director: Ryan Self
Designer: Benny Gold
Managing Partner: Leslie Barrett
Account Manager: Emily Bollier
Partner, Head of Brand Strategy: Bonnie Wan
Partner, Head of Communication Strategy: Christine Chen
Senior Communications Strategist: Jacob Sperla
Brand Strategist: Darien Ahn
Head of Broadcast Production: Leila Gage
Director of Business Affairs: Judy Ybarra
EDITORIAL
Company Name: Elevel
Editing Company City: San Francisco
Editor: Graham Willcox
Assistant Editor: Liz Norris
Director of Elevel: Michael Damiani
Post Producer: Allison Lambert
AUDIO AND SOUND DESIGN
Music Company name: Elias Music
Music Company City: Los Angeles, CA
Music Composer: Jonathan Elias
Sound Design Company: Lime Studios
Sound Design Company City: Los Angeles, CA
Sound Designer: Joel Waters
Mix Company: Lime Studios
Audio Engineer: Joel Waters
Assistant Mixer: Collin Thomas
Agency Director of Film and Music Curation: Tod Puckett
VFX
Company name: Elevel
Creative Director: Mike Landry
Technical Director: Nathan Shipley
Motion Artist: Luke Davisson
VFX
Company name: a52
VFX Supervisors: Jesse Monsour, Pat Murphy
Flame Artists: Kevin Stokes, John Valle
CG Supervisor: Andrew Romatz
CG Artists: Aemilia Widodo, Ariana Ziae-Mohseni, Joe Paniagua, Michael Bettinardi, Josh Dyer
VFX Producer: Drew Rissman
Executive Producers: Kim Christensen, Patrick Nugent
Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
Color Company Name: a52 Color
Colorist: Gregory Reese
Senior Color Producer: Jenny Bright
Executive Producer: Thatcher Peterson
Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
UNITED NATIONS
Partnerships Lead, Sustainable Development Goals: Frances Simpson-Allen
TRIBECA STUDIOS
Executive Producer: Nina Chaudry
Coordinating Producer: Nikki F. Heyman
Production Associate: Jaimi Cooks
Partnership Development: Jackie Hassell, Lauren Viola, Evan Dell’Aquila
Legal: Eileen Rodriguez, Steve DeLuca, Christina Yotides
Finance: Joe Pugliese, Julio Mariano, Diane Fosten
“I grew up as a barefoot kid in South Africa …” begins spoken word artist, Lindi Nolte, with her inspiring poem...
“I grew up as a barefoot kid in South Africa …” begins spoken word artist, Lindi Nolte, with her inspiring poem about where her love for nature was born and ...
Paradigm O visited Save Lewin Forest protectors camp, which has been set up by WA Forest Alliance to protect an area...
Paradigm O visited Save Lewin Forest protectors camp, which has been set up by WA Forest Alliance to protect an area of Old Growth Forest, 'Lewin 06'. Other ...
Wildland farming can change the environment, and the Knepp Estate is proof of this. By transforming agricultural...
Wildland farming can change the environment, and the Knepp Estate is proof of this. By transforming agricultural deserts into something which is rich and bio...
Nature's Newsletter Special Winter 2020 Issue features global warming and the environment. Articles written by...
Nature's Newsletter Special Winter 2020 Issue features global warming and the environment. Articles written by experts in the field and one article by students…
4 Blue Waves offers reusable, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable products in an effort to reduce plastic...
4 Blue Waves offers reusable, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable products in an effort to reduce plastic pollution at the source. For more information...
Creatives Josselin Pacreau & Sebastien Guinet
Agency TBWA PARIS
Directed and photographed by Jérôme de Gerlache
1st...
Creatives Josselin Pacreau & Sebastien Guinet
Agency TBWA PARIS
Directed and photographed by Jérôme de Gerlache
1st AC Pierre Assenat
Editing Maxime Setzer
Colourgrading Thibaut Petillon
Music Julien Jaounen
Producer Jennifer Bauche
Location manager Teva François
Art direction Eddy Penot
Diver Bruno Scheerlinck
Produced by Else
“Sound of Sea” is the story of a strange sound coming from the ocean. A never-before-heard, almost living sound.
The first person to hear it during one of his dives was French free diver Guillaume Néry, the secret player behind this whole operation who posted a video of the sound on his various social media accounts yesterday morning, Wednesday, April 3.
Several dozen sea lovers and influencers shared this strange sound, extending its impact on social networks, immediately raising many questions. What is this sound? Where does it come from? What does it mean?
The sound is actually a combination of different sounds: real undersea sounds and echoing laments from the living world, victim of man's over-exploitation: a harpooned whale, pilot whales hunted down in the Faroe Isles, dolphins caught in fishermen's nets, frenetic, agitated schools of fish packed together in trawlers’ nets.
Inaudible, invisible and therefore overlooked atrocities.
Sorted, amplified, processed and juxtaposed, these sounds resulted in a single, unique sound:
“Sound of Sea”: an SOS from the ocean.
The sound was emitted from a strange spherical beacon sunk in the depths of the ocean off La Rochelle, France, where the Sam Simon is currently on a mission to stop fishing vessels from catching dolphins in their nets. This beacon was specially designed for an operation led by Sea Shepherd France and the TBWA\Paris advertising agency.
The idea behind the device was to raise people's awareness of the urgent need to reduce our fish consumption. Political measures are too weak and too slow. It is time for each and every one of us to take real action: rethinking how we (de)consume the ocean and stop treating it like an inexhaustible pantry. Because scientists' forecasts are alarming: according to the United Nations, if nothing is done to curb the phenomenon of overfishing, fish populations will collapse by 2048. Without them, the ocean -- the planet's leading climate regulator and oxygen provider -- will cease to function. We won't survive the death of the ocean. Far more than protein, fish are the breath that connects us to life.
In the end, Sound of Sea is a new way of grabbing the attention of both the general public and the media.
It's no longer Man speaking to Man about the Oceans’ problems. In a way, this is the ocean speaking directly to us in its own language, a language we understand without ever having learned it - a distress signal, a scream: an SOS.
We are a project in Kamiyawa village Kodera sublocation, West Kasipul, Oyugis sub county, Homa-Bay County Kenya. We...
We are a project in Kamiyawa village Kodera sublocation, West Kasipul, Oyugis sub county, Homa-Bay County Kenya. We teach farmers on organic permaculture far...
South Korea ratified the Paris Agreement as an effort to reduce carbon emissions. South Korean President Moon Jae-In...
South Korea ratified the Paris Agreement as an effort to reduce carbon emissions. South Korean President Moon Jae-In is also committed to no longer build a n...
Caught in the act: How our high-pruned timber trees are helping our rare Sugar Gliders survive the winter. The clear...
Caught in the act: How our high-pruned timber trees are helping our rare Sugar Gliders survive the winter. The clear trunks are an easy landing pad. The glid...
This woman rescued a tiny baby wombat after she lost her mom and helped her grow big and strong. To help these...
This woman rescued a tiny baby wombat after she lost her mom and helped her grow big and strong. To help these rescuers save more wombats, you can support th...
