Ties
2019 · 8m · Russia
Directed by Dina Velikovskaya
Genres: animation
Tones: melancholic, tender
A young woman leaves home to see the world, but her bond with her parents is so powerful it becomes destructive — explored through stop-motion figures built entirely with a 3D pen.
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First film in the world made entirely with a 3D pen — the technique forces every figure to visibly carry the hand that made it, which rhymes with the family-ties premise. Seven and a half minutes, Dina Velikovskaya knows what she's doing. Solid.
The first film made entirely with a 3D pen — meaning every character carries the visible hand that built them — is a material innovation that genuinely rhymes with its theme of bonds that bind and destroy. Velikovskaya's commitment to the technique is total.
7:23, 48.7K views, 1,067 likes, Dina Velikovskaya animating with Nadia Goldman, distributed by interfilm Berlin — first film made entirely with a 3D pen, which means every frame is visibly drawn into space, plastic filament holding the hand that made it. The technique IS the metaphor for the umbilical bond.