Noesis

Short film about growing up

  • Stop-frame animation, 3.40 min
  • Music & sound design: Sascha Mock
  • Sound mix & mastering: Ben Mitchell
  • Awards: Best Animated Film (Sleepwalkers International Student Film Festival, Tallinn). Jury Prize (Joint winner, Puppets on Film, London). Student Animation Award (Animated Exeter). backup.award (backup_festival, Weimar). UK Canary Award (CWFF Canary Wharf Film Festival, London). 2nd fantasy prize (Animatron - Babelgum Animation Film Festival).
  • Features: German Short Films 2011. Annual catalogue of the 100 best German short films.

Noesis is my graduation film that I developed during my MA Animation course at the University of the West of England (UWE). It is a traditional stop-frame animation made in a papier-mâché technique.

You can pause the header animation here.

  • Winner Jury prize joint prize Puppets on Film 2011
  • Winner Best of the West Best student animation Animated Exeter 2010
  • Winner backup.award backup_festival 2010
  • Winner Best animated film Sleepwalkers student and short film festival 2009
  • Winner UK Canary award Canary Wharf film festival 2009
  • Runner up best animated film category Fantasy Animatron 2010
  • Stack of rough storyboard drawings of the child
  • Collection of modelmaking tools and casts for the child and the adult puppet
  • Technical drawing of the child front and side with working joints
  • Test shoot of child puppet with variety of expressions
  • On-set photograph of Sophie applying the papier-mâché material onto the child puppet
  • On-set photograph of a back view of the acrylic bubbles on glass and a top-down view of the child puppet