Astronaut of Featherweight
2D, 3D animation, rotoscope
year: 2017
format: HD, DCP
duration: 27'
production: Bonobostudio
distribution: Bonobostudio
Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which the body is a commodity and money is immortality. From space spa colonies to alien plantations, everybody is forced to take care of their bodies.
More About the Film
Direction, script, design, animation, music: Dalibor Barić
Voice: Ivana Rushaidat
Cast: Ivana Horvat, Marko Cindrić, Nikša Marinović
Director of photography: Daniel Bakotić
Editing: Iva Kraljević
Modeling: Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson
Costumes: Slavica Motušić
Assistant director: Marko Tomašević
Production co-ordinator: Miroslav Šimeg
Re-recording mixer: Bojan Kondres
Translation: Valentina Lisak
Creative consultant: Emerik Pall
Producer: Vanja Andrijević
Dalibor Barić (1974) is a multimedia artist. He lives and works in Zagreb. He makes short experimental and animated films, music videos, festival trailers, installations, graphic novels, drawings and cut-outs. He is also a music composer and VJ performer.
Filmography
Astronaut of Featherweight (2017), Unknown Energies, Unidentified Emotions (2015), Amnesiac on the Beach (2013), Marienbad First Aid Kit /2013), The Spectres of Veronica (2011), New Hippie Future (2011), Pain So Light That Appears As Tickle (2010), The Mind from Nowhere (2010), The Horror of Dracula (2010), Ghost Porn in Ectoplasm! But How? (2010), Nymph Gloss Atari (2010)
Awards
- Best Animated Film, The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival 2018
- Honourable Mention, Landshut Short Film Festival 2019
Festivals
Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Film (5/6-10/6/2017)
Days of Croatian Film (16/6-21/6/2017)
Pula Film Festival (15/7-22/7/2017)
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York (13/10-20/10/2017)
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival (31/10-5/11/2017)
Alternative Film Video Festival (13/12-17/12/2017)
The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York (22/2-25/2/2018)
NW Animation Festival, Portland (23/5-27/5/2018)
Videomedeja International Video Festival (31/8-2/9/2018)
Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse (13/3-31/3/2019)
Landshut Short Film Festival (20/3-25/3/2019)
