第12届FIRST影展“国际短片”提名影片《重负》

Min Börda

重负

The Burden

非首映

Non-Premiere

*评委会大奖（短片）提名

瑞典 | 2017 |彩色 |13分钟 | 定格动画/戏剧/音乐

Sweden | 2017 | color | 13min | Stop-motion animation/Drama/Musical

导演/编剧/摄影/剪辑 | Niki Lindroth von Bahr

制片 | Kalle Wettre

作曲 | Hans Appelqvist

配音演员 | Olof Wretling, Mattias Fransson, Carl Englén

导演简介

Niki Lindroth von Bahr，1984年生，现居斯德哥尔摩，艺术家，动画导演。于2016年春取得皇家艺术学院的美术硕士学位。她的电影《Bath House》（2014）和《Tord and Tord》（2010）曾在柏林电影节、圣丹斯电影节、 AFI和法国安纳西动画电影节上映。《Tord and Tord》也被提名为2011年Guldbaggegalan影节最佳短片。除了制作自己的电影和雕塑外，她还是一位独立服装设计师，与尼克拉斯·尼尔森合作。他们一起为艺术家Fever Ray和大卫·鲍伊的音乐专辑《Black Star》设计制作服装。

Director’s Biography

Niki Lindroth von Bahr, born in 1984, is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. She got her master’s degree in fine art at the Royal Institute of Art in the spring of 2016. Her films Bath House (2014) andTord and Tord (2010) has been screened at festivals around the word, such as Berlinale, Sundance, AFI and Annecy.Tord and Tord was also nominated as Best Short film at Guldbaggegalan 2011. Along with making her own films and sculpture, she is also a freelance costume designer co-working with Nicklas Nilsson. Together they have designed and made costumes for the artist Fever Ray and David Bowie's music videoBlackstar.

导演阐述

《重负》是一部动画音乐剧，灵感来自我在成长过程中喜欢观看的古典好莱坞音乐剧。然而，这个主题更加黑暗，探讨无聊、孤独和存在焦虑。我试图关注那些就在我们身边却总被忽视的人们，比如超市的货架整理员或是汉堡餐厅的夜间清洁工。如果这些人突然发现他们身处于一部音乐剧中，他们会唱什么呢？整部影片耗时两年，所有的动画、模型和人偶全部为手工制作。

Director’s Statement

The Burden is an animated musical, inspired by the classical Hollywood musicals that I loved to watch when I was growing up. The theme is darker however, dealing with boredom, loneliness and existential anxiety. I mainly wanted to shed light upon the kind of pointless, underpaid labor that exists everywhere but is seldom paid attention to. Straightening groceries at a supermarket or working a nightshift as a cleaner at a hamburger restaurant. If these employees were to suddenly find themselves in a musical, what would they sing about? The production process has been working through thoroughly and it has taken me over two years to finish the film. AII of the animation, models and puppets are made by hand.

剧情简介

一部带有启示录意味的动画音乐剧。这个故事分为四个部分，分别发生在超市、长租酒店、呼叫中心和汉堡餐厅。所有的情节设置都发生在一个紧邻高速公路的现代市场。

被刻画为动物的主角以歌舞的形式表演。四个部分的情节在故事和情绪的表达上都有所不同，既有愉快的节奏，亦有噩梦般的黑暗。

Synopsis

An animated musical with apocalyptic undertones. The story is divided into four episodes that takes place in a supermarket, a long-term hotel, a call center and a hamburger restaurant. All of the settings are located in a modern, generic market place next to a large freeway.

The characters, portrayed as animals, perform musical numbers with singing and dancing. The episodes vary both in story and mood, and spans from cheerful tap routine to nightmarish black.

“散发着迷人气质的动画杰作。将可爱的动物造型嫁接到有趣的歌舞形式中，把夜班生活展现得生动精致。”

“It is a masterpiece of animation which radiates its charisma. By putting adorable images of animals to amusing forms of singing and dancing, it gives a vibrant and exquisite exhibition of night shift life.”