Heartstrings: Michael Sewnarain & Yi Zhao

What’s the thing with animation? In the talk show Heartstrings, animation filmmakers and art connoisseurs present their favourite films. Perhaps, the productions inspired them to make their own films or they can relate to their aspirations.

Showing in this program

DaDa

Piet Kroon
The Netherlands, 1994
10 min.

Grain Coupon

Jian Jiang / Xi Chen
China, 2011
19 min.

During the period of Culture Revolution in 1960s and 1970s in China, a disable old man wanted to use his handicraft, a snuff bottle with inside painting, for the exchange of “Grain Coupon” from a soldier. The soldier promised to give more coupons if the old man can forge a precious stamp. The old man had to do it, however, he failed and fell out with the soldier. At the end, the old man got grain in another way.

Seventeen

Hisko Hulsing
The Netherlands, 2004
12 min.

A seventeen-year-old boy dreams of the girl he can spy on from the roof where he works as a roofer. His uncivilised colleagues poke hardhanded fun at him.

A shy seventeen-year-old construction worker tries to hold his own in the macho world of roofers