Filmværksted Viborg is excited to invite you to our annual screening on Thursday May 1st. This will be the first time screening under our new name and logo, Filmværksted Viborg, though some of you may still know us as Open Workshop. We will be screening 6 animated shorts who have all been supported by Filmværksted Viborg in the recent years. After the screening we invite our guests to join us for a small reception.
Event info
📅 May1st, 2025
🕒 16:30 - 19:00
📍 Fotorama Tingvej 22, 8800 Viborg
🎟️ Free admission - limited seating, so be sure to show up early
SCREENING
Puddle
Directors: Mads Bonde, Maria-May Brown
Producers: Mads Theodor Bonde & Maria-May BackhausBrown
Late one afternoon, a young girl sits alone, waiting to be picked up as the last child at the after-school care center. At home, an uneasy atmosphere awaits, marked by her father's increasing stress. The situation worsens when the house starts to leak, and her longing for her father's warmth and care is overshadowed by the escalating turmoil.
Puddle received a development grant of 20.000 DKK from Filmværksted Viborg in 2023.
Let them Eat Cake
Director: Mathias Rodrigues Bjerre
Producer - Katrine Dolmer
A "Jeff Bezos" is an ambitious capitalist and businessman. Our Jeff Bezos manages a local bakery and does everything in his power to satisfy his customers who are both impatient and picky. In the back of the shop, Jeff secretly holds thousands of little live cake men in captivity, where they are forced to bake all the bread and cake that the customers order. But when a cake man falls into a dough one day and is baked with it, the customers discover that they LOVE the new taste! In Jeff's eternal quest to be the best, he kills his Cake Men employees until one day there are none left. Only himself. Which leaves him no options but to make the ultimative sacrifice.'
Puddle received a production grant of 20.000 DKK from Filmværksted Viborg in 2022.
Trashed
Director and Producer: Marie Geert Jensen
A girl sets out to remove plastic from the oceanbut accidentally mistakes a poisonous jellyfish fora plastic bag and goes on a hallucinating trip,revealing how human waste and actions affectsmarine life. Waking up in a hospital she is facedwith the exact problem that put her there in thefirst place and the reality that merely by being illshe contributes to the problem herself.
Director Marie Geert Jensen
Marie participated in a residencyat Filmværksted Viborg from December 2023 to March 2024, during which she produced the final round of animation for Thrashed.
TV or the Disturbance on Forest Hill Road
Director: Frederic Siegel
Producers: Marwan Abdalla Eissa, Fela Bellotto
Six-year-old Diego exceeds his screen time andends up with square eyes. This triggers a seriesof mysterious phenomena, seeping throughvarious screens in the apartment building. Whenpolice officers Kim and Mike arrive to investigatea noise complaint, they find themselves in achaotic mix of realities and must face off againstfictional threats come to life.
Director Frederic Siegel was in a residency at Filmværksted Viborg in the winter of 2021 - during the residency he worked on the development of the project.
Dyr i By'r
Director: Emil Nørgaard Munk
Producers: Mette Mikkelsen, Jonathan Langelund
The series introduces city children to the many animal species that live alongside them: on the streets, in parks, in backyards – even in apartments. These are animals that adults might call "disgusting" or at best "ordinary and insignificant." But as the series' animated helper, Vimse, says, that's just because adults don't know much about the animals.
Vimse helps children see that every single animal species has its own right to exist, and if you look closely, you might find small superheroes with 6, 8, or no legs at all.
Dyr i by’r provides children with a language to talk about biodiversity, the climate crisis, and raises awareness of the many species we humans share the city with.
Filmværksted Viborg supported Dyr i Byr med a Development Grant in 2021.
Flatastic
Director: Alice Saey
Producer: Miyu, Keplerfilm, Spotted Bird (Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Peter Lindhout, Koji Nelissen, Derk-Jan Warrink)
Factories belch out smoke; humans gorge themselves with surimi sticks and take-away coffee cups videos and commute by smartboard in the overpopulated and increasingly suffocating cities. In the oceans, the sea beds are emptying but the waters are rising and inundating the coasts… On the ocean bed, the situation has become critical. When the Manta Rays discover yet another of their brothers suffocated by a man-made killer plastic bag, they rise up in revolt. Lamenting their dead, the Rays undulate in a solemn funerary procession towards the coast and take it by storm. A wave of insurgence against the human race ensues; a tsunami of revolt submerges the spotless buildings and the organised shoals of Manta Ray commandos take control of the Earth. It is the beginning of the Flatastic Era. In the heart of the city submerged by the waters, the manta rays indulge in the joys of entertainment in front of a wondrous synchronized swimming show of flat humans paraded/conducted by a fellow tamer ray. Since the manta Ray takeover, humans have peacefully adapted their lifestyle to the flattened environment, swimming through buildings which are floating horizontally on the surface on a borderless ocean. Armed with steamrolling smartboards, the manta rays chain-flatten humans in a gentle yet taylorist way, with the proud aim to rayify the human race. Rays and humans swim alongside in the endless maze drawn by the emerged buildings. All the while being oblivious to the warnings of the growling Earth, as well as to the architecture gradually sinking, causing increasingly tighter traffic areas and thus notable tension between citydwellers.
Alice Saey was in a residency at Filmværksted Viborg working on Flatastic from January to March 2017. The residency provided development support for writing and completing the script, conducting research, detailed storyboard creation, and the first character animation test.