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Fracti

dir. Lavinia Petrache
Romania / Switzerland
6'

Humans live their routines inside an ethereal village floating in the sky. What happens when one of them causes the world to end?

Although FRACTI is about that “what if” of liberation from routine, nothing in Lavinia Petrache’s visuals suggests monotony. On the contrary, the lively mélange of precise drawings – contours of bodies, objects, and backgrounds – bearing irregular, colorful lines is a spectacle in itself. The story, however, transforms it, with this animated world subjecting its inhabitants to repetitive and unchanging actions. All this until one of them has an epiphany and gives free rein to the desire to touch, to change things. One world ends and another appears: nothing more beautiful, nothing more natural for this little ode to change. (Călin Boto)

Schedule

Saturday, September 27th, 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie
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Lavinia Petrache

Lavinia Petrache is a self-taught animator originally from Romania, and currently based in Zürich, Switzerland. After a decade-long career in computer science across the United States and Switzerland, she gradually shifted away from technology towards the more poetic universe of animation. Fracti, her first short film, is inspired by her own journey of changes.

  • Technical sheet
  • DIRECTION, STORY, ANIMATION: Lavinia Petrache
  • EDITING: Frederik Ribergaard
  • SOUND EDITING: Noisy Neighbours, Etienne Kompis, Loïc Kreyden
  • MUSIC: Dimitris Dodoras
  • CHOIR: Fames Project
  • COLOR EXPLORATION: Lalita Brunner

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