2023 Kill Your Darlings

Logline

If there’s one thing farmer Olga loves more than her pet pigs, it’s a pork chop. When the pigs she butchers find that they can still influence events on the farm after their deaths, a vicious circle begins.

Synopsis

Farmer Olga lives with her three pigs on an idyllic farm. Olga adores her lively little animals. But she also loves ham and sausages - a dilemma! In a fit of lust for meat, Olga slaughters two of the three pigs. The remaining animal becomes fearful and hides behind the barn from then on. Olga is full of regret. Meanwhile, the two slaughtered pigs find themselves on a cloud, floating high above the farm. They delight in the fluffy, soft landscape and begin to play. Then they discover that various actions on the cloud directly influence the weather. And thus also on the events on the farm. When below them, Olga‘s meat supplies begin to run low, the two pigs on the cloud decide to act to prevent another slaughter, unwittingly starting a cycle of destruction. A story about the price of greed and short-term thinking.

Direction

Thirza Ingold

Production

Asakofilm
Anja Kofmel

Coproduction

Hochschule Luzern Design und Kunst
Master Animation / Fred Truniger
Gerd Gockell

SRF Swiss Television and Radio

Credits

• Direction: Thirza Ingold
• Script: Thirza Ingold
• Animation: Thirza Ingold, Eleonora Berra
• Design: Thirza Ingold
• Lighting: Thirza Ingold, Rafael Sommerhalder
• Film Editing: Marina Rosset
• Compositing: Franziska Meyer
• Color Correction and Grading: Rafael Sommerhalder
• Voice: Tanja Weis
• Music: Simon Schwaninger
• Foleys: Dieter Hebben
• Sounddesign: Aline Schoch
• Sound Editing: Jeroen Visser
• Mentors: Anja Kofmel, Jochen Ehmann
• Production Support: Jean First
• Department Assistance: Ruth Stofer, Knust Katharina
• Production: Asakofilm / Anja Kofmel
• Co-production: HSLU Design & Kunst MA Film / Fred Truniger, Executive Producer: Gerd Gockell, Schweizer Fernsehen / Gabriela Bloch Steinmann

Technical information

• Origine: Switzerland
• Year: 2023
• Duration: 5' 49"
• Process: color
• Technique: puppets & stratacut
• Size: 1920x1080
• Format: Prores / DCP
• Aspect: 16:9
• Dialogue: without
• Sound: Stereo / Dolby / 5.1 Surround
• ISAN: 0000-0005-B3FF-0000-Y-0000-0000-9

More information

• School: Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst http://www.hslu.ch
• Teacher: Jochen Ehmann
• Mentorship: Anja Kofmel, Jochen Ehmann
• Software: Dragon Frame / After Effects / Photoshop / Premiere / Davinci Resolve
• Target audience: adults
• Genre: black comedy