Letting Go
Estonia, Denmark2017animated11'
If you experienced something bad in your life, make a doll that will symbolise your traumas, put it into a boat and let it float away. This Japanese tradition inspired Ulö Pikkov to make a stop-motion animation in which dolls, enchanted in a hypnotic dance, are made of memories which can hurt like a nail. The dolls are made by Agnes, a girl from an orphanage, and the animation is both a documentary and a form of therapy. Will Agnes be able to get rid of her demons?
- directed by
- Ülo Pikkov
Born in 1976. An internationally renowned filmmaker, producer and film scholar. He studied animation at the Turku Arts Academy in Finland and since 1996 has directed several award-winning animation films. He has published articles on film and written fiction books for children and adults. In 2005 he graduated from the Institute of Law in University of Tartu, focusing on the media and author’s rights. Pikkov is the author of “Animasophy, Theoretical Writings on the Animated Film” (2011). In 2018 Pikkov got his doctoral degree at the Estonian Academy of Arts with thesis “Anti-Animation: Textures of Eastern European Animated Film” and today he works as a professor of animation at the same institution.
- cinematography
- Raivo Möllits
- script
- Ülo Pikkov
- animated by
- Marili Sokk
- music
- Andrea Martignoni, Amos Cappuccio
- sound
- Andrea Martignoni, Amos Cappuccio
- editing
- Ülo Pikkov
- production
- Ülo Pikkov (Silmviburlane)
- Photo
- Trailer