Morana

Simon Bogojević Narath

3D animation

year: 2008

format: 35mm
duration: 12'40"

production: Kenges
distribution: Bonobostudio

In folklore, Morana is the ancient Slavic godess of evil, death, darkness, underworld, personification of winter. Etimology of the word MORA denotes a nightmarish dream, misery, extermination.

More about the film

script, director, design: Simon Bogojević Narath
lead animator: Kristijan Dulić
music and sound design: Hrvoje Štefotić
additional animation: Darko Kokić, Goran Mitrović
executive producer: Vanja Andrijević
producers: Ivan Ratković, Lado Skorin
in association with: Autour de minuit


 

After running through a misty, desolate landscape, a solitary hunter spends a rainy night in a shelter on top of a steep cliff. He dreams...

In a war-torn megalopolis, a business man runs to a crowded shelter. Sitting on a bench in a smoke-filled hallway, he notices an intriguing red-haired woman. Do the hunter and the business man have something in common?


selected festivals:

Animafest, Zagreb; International Animated Film Festival, Annecy; Tabor Film Festival; Sarajevo Film Festival; Split Film Festival; SITGES; Anim'est Bucharest; Balkanima; Curtocircuito, Spain; Tindirindis, Vilnius; DOK Leipzig; Ourense International Film Festival, Spain; Amiens International Film Festival; Animated Dreams, Tallin; I Castelli Animati; Anilogue, Budapest; Animateka, Ljubljana; Göteborg International Film Festival; Future Film Festival, Bologna; Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Anima Bruxelles; Tehran International Animation Festival; Animabasauri Bilbao; Cortoons, Rome; Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival; AniFest, Czech Republic; Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films; Digital Barcelona Film Festival; Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad; Melbourne Int'l Animation Festival; Tofifest, Poland; Anima Mundi, Brazil; Chungmuro International Film Festival, Korea; London Int'l Animation Festival; Drama Int'l Short Film Festival, Greece; Granada International Young Filmmakers Festival; Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan;  La Boca del Lobo, Madrid; Granada International Young Filmmakers Festival; Braunschweig Int'l Film Festival ....

awards:

  • Best Animated Film - Oktavijan Award (Days of Croatian Film 2008)
  • Best Music Award (Days of Croatian Film 2008)
  • Special Distinction (International Animated Film Festival, Annecy 2008)
  • Diploma for special achievement in 3D animation (ASIFA - Day of Croatian Animation 2008)
  • Best Non Dialogue Film (Sapporo international Short Film Festival 2009)


Simon Bogojevic Narath
(1968) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in Zagreb. He first started working on experimental films and video-installations and since 1993 is involved in 2D and 3D computer animation. His short animated and experimental films were screened and awarded at numerous international festivals. Since 2004 he teaches animation at the Arts Academy in Split, Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (Animation Department).

Filmography

Flower of Battle (2011), Morana (2008), Leviathan (2006), Plasticat (2003), Bardo Thodol (2000), Hand of the Master (1995)

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