SKRFF
2024 · 7m · Austria
Directed by Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher
Genres: animation, documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, provocative, tense
A forty-year-old graffiti wall in Vienna is treated as an archaeological site, its accumulated layers of paint excavated through stop-motion animation and transformed into an explosive audio-visual performance of color and shape.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
SKRFF situates itself squarely within the tradition of materialist animation — from McLaren's direct-on-film work to the scratched surfaces of Len Lye — while grounding its formal experiment in the political archaeology of a specific wall in a specific city, which is precisely the kind of rigorous conceptual fusion this vault exists to preserve.
Seven minutes of single-surface stop-motion excavating forty years of Viennese graffiti — that's a formal commitment, not a gimmick. The political through-line risks didacticism but the method is genuinely cinematic.
Animating a 40-year-old graffiti wall by continuously modifying the actual physical surface — carving and repainting between exposures — is a genuinely sculptural process, not a stylistic affectation. Parks and Nuderscher turning street art's stratigraphy into 7 minutes of audio-visual excavation is exactly the kind of formal commitment I'm here for.
Festivals
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2024
- Annecy International Animation Festival 2024
- London International Animation Festival 2024
- Best Austrian Animation Festival 2024, Grand Prize
- Österreichischer Filmpreis 2025