Little Miss Fate
2020 · 8m · Switzerland
Directed by Joder von Rotz
Genres: animation, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: dark, surreal, whimsical
Little Miss Fate assumes control of destiny and inadvertently conjures a creature that devours all the world's affection.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Storybook girl accidentally conjures a love-devouring monster — Swiss animation with H.R. Giger Award and warm-character-design-meets-cosmic-horror tension. Promising.
Von Rotz pairing warm storybook character design with genuinely unnerving creature work — Little Miss Fate accidentally birthing a love-devouring monster — is the Ocelot-Švankmajer juxtaposition done with Swiss craft and an H.R. Giger prize for Best Swiss Short. Considered fantasy animation.
8:15 Swiss animation from YK Animation Studio with the H.R. Giger Narcisse Award and Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival Grand Prix — that genre-festival recognition for a 'storybook-meets-monstrous' design hybrid is exactly the craft tension Giger-named awards reward.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2021