Venus won an oscar qualifying award at Slamdance in Park City, Utah. Time to celebrate!
Venus by Tor Fruergaard, “for its creative use of claymation characters to explore sexual adventure and its lighthearted, touching and memorable story.
Eventhough we didn’t win this prize I am very proud for the nomination! Somebody out there must think that Venus is fostering Intercultural dialog.
PRIX INTERCULTUREL for Best Film Fostering Intercultural Dialog
(€ 5000; Sponsor: Interfilm Academy Munich)
Winner: HASIMOT (BARRIERS) directed by Golan Rise
Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts (MSTFA), Jerusalem, Israel
(The nominated films were: BARRIERS, SILENT RIVER, VENUS)
In „Venus“ taucht der Zuschauer in die fiktive Welt der Knetmassemännchen Caroline und Rasmus. In acht Minuten begleiten wir das glubschäugige, von jeglicher Sinneslust verlassene Pärchen in einen Swinger Club. Regisseur Tor Fruergaard hat sich selbst für seine Recherche in dieses zwielichtige Milieu begeben. Sein Einwand am Schluss der Frage und Antwort-Runde: die Boxershorts habe er jedoch angelassen. Ein geschmackvoller Film, der ein intimes Thema mit Hilfe von Knetmasseanimation ideal löst.
(…) der die Geschichte eines Paares in Sexnöten mit viel Humor und sehr liebevoll erzählt. Ins symbolisch Knetgummihafte entrückt kann er Szenen zeigen, die mit echten Darstellern so nicht möglich wären, weil es eben einen Riesenunterschied macht, ob man nacktes Fleisch zeigt, oder einen erigierten Knetpenis. (…)
Next stop: Munich!
Venus was selected for INTERNATIONALES FESTIVAL DER FILMHOCHSCHULEN MÜNCHEN. Check out the German pitch :)
Caroline und Rasmus haben ein Problem. Bereits seit vier Monaten haben sie keinen Sex mehr miteinander gehabt. Zu Carolines Bestürzung glaubt Rasmus eine Lösung im örtlichen Swinger-Club zu finden. Nur zögerlich stimmt Caroline einem gemeinsamen Clubbesuch zu …
Venus is one of my favorite shorts in the festival (…) It’s really fantastic.
Our pick of the best new short films from around the world includes dystopian zombie thriller The Unliving (Sweden), claymation as you’ve never seen it before in the erotic comedy Venus (pictured, Denmark), and danger lurking beneath the surface in the award-winning The Strange Ones (USA).
Venus has been invited to a few festivals. I will be present at Chicago International Film Festival in October (Venus is also selected for the sneak preview in August) and Nordisk Panorama in September (in Aarhus, where I grew up). See you out there :)
Catch me at Annecy Animation Festival or Los Angeles Film Festival and get one of these Venus merchandize condoms. Use it straight away or save this rare collectors item.
Venus is in the official sellection at Los Angeles Film Festival, the biggest film festival in L.A. 5025 films were in consideration and about 200 films were selected.
Venus goes to Hollywood!
Venus is in the official sellection at the worlds biggest animation festival Annecy. 1955 films were in consideration and only 207 films were selected.
The festival takes place in Annecy, France from June 7th till june 11th.
I am really looking forward to this! See you in Annecy :-D
This short student film from Denmark tells a wonderfully sweet story about how to solve the problems in a relationship that has lost it’s spark. It is both insightful, funny and touching. The film mixes simple character design with real sophisticated film making in the animation technique called “claymation”. “VENUS” is very well directed evidenced both the shot choices and the set designs and very well written evidenced by the dialogue that rings true and the overall originality of the piece.
