2023 Kill Your Darlings
Contents
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
Production
Asakofilm
Anja Kofmel
Coproduction
Hochschule Luzern Design und Kunst
Master Animation / Fred Truniger
Gerd Gockell
SRF Swiss Radio and Television
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, Katharina Knust
- Production: Asakofilm / Anja Kofmel
- Co-production: HSLU Design & Kunst MA Film / Fred Truniger, Executive Producer: Gerd Gockell, SRF Swiss Radio and Television / 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 , fantasy
- Music Cue Sheet:
| Shortfilm | Title | Artist | Year | Length (hh:mm:ss) | Label | Kind of Work |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 1 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:55 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 2 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:27 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 3 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:42 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 4 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:31 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 5 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:05 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 6 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:11 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 7 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:12 | - | Filmmusic |
| Shortfilm | Kill Your Darlings 8 | Simon Schwaninger | 2023 | 00:00:34 | - | Filmmusic |
Verkauf des Films / Sale of film / Vente du film
Vertrieb / Distribution
Präsentiert an anderen festivals / Presented at other festivals / Présentation à d'autres festivals
- 2023 Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Switzerland 30.6.2023 - 8.6.2023
- 2023 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland 5.9.2023 - 10.9.2023
- 2023 Bristol Encounters Film Festival, UK 27.9.2023 - 1.10.2023
- 2023 Namur Festival International du Film Francophone, Belgium 29.9.2023 - 6.10.2023
- 2023 Festival Cinéma Jeune Public, Switzerland 22.11.2023 - 26.11.2023
- 2023 Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium 24.11.2023 - 2.12.2023
- 2024 Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland 17.1.2024 - 24.1.2024
- 2024 Premiers Plans Angers, France 20.1.2024 - 28.1.2024
- 2024 Fumetto Luzern, Switzerland 12.3.2024
- 2024 International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands 3.4.2024 - 7.4.2024
- 2024 Schulpräsentation HSLU & adult swim Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart, Germany 27.04.2024
- 2024 International Festival of Animated Films ANIFILM Liberec, Czech Republic 7.5.2024 - 12.5.2024
- 2024 Kurzfilmnacht Winterthur curated by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland 24.5.2024
- 2024 Züri Shorts Hofkino im Landesmuseum curated by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland 23.6.2024
- 2024 International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Slowakia 25.6.2024 - 30.6.2024
- 2024 Mecal Barcelona International Animation and Short Film Festival, Spain 27.6.2024 - 7.7.2024
- 2024 Bäumli Open-Air-Kino Winterthur, Switzerland 5.7.2024
- 2024 Heldinnen / Heroines Stop Motion Xenix Zürich, Switzerland 17.8.2024
- 2024 Dublin Independent Film Festival, nominated for best animation film, Ireland 3.9.2024 - 4.9.2024
- 2024 Golden Grape International Short Film Festival Telavi, Georgia 2.9.2024 - 6.9.2024
- 2024 Festival International du Court Métrage de Lille, France 19.9.2024 - 29.9.2024
- 2024 Nahal International Student Short Film Festival, Iran 9.2024
- 2024 T-Short Animated Film Festival Karlsruhe, Germany 20.9.2024- 29.9.2024
- 2024 Animayevka International Festival of Animation Films, Belarus 24.9.2024 - 26.9.2024
- 2024 Cortoons Gandia Festival, Spain 18.10.2024 - 20.10.2024
- 2024 ToHorror Filml festival Turin, Italy 24.10.2024 - 27.10.2024
- 2024 Interfilm KUKI 17th Young Short film festival, Germany 3.11.2024 - 10.11.2024
- 2024 Lugano Animation Days, Switzerland 6.11.2024 - 10.11.2024
- 2024 42. Aix en Provence Short Film Festival, France 3.12.2024 - 7.12.2024
- 2024 Solothurner Kleinkunsttage, Switzerland 27.12.2024
- 2025 Filmgilde Biel Sonderscreening Shorts, Switzerland, scheduled for 2025
- 2025 Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart, Germany 6.5.2025 - 11.5.2025
