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Robbe Vervaeke
Animated filmmaker, director, artist
I create stories



Everything I do is a part of a bigger cluster of works. Every drawing, every word written, every installation made, everything is part of an umbrella of creations. Every collection is part of a subject, of a story. 'The goodbye girl' is a ghost story. 'Escaping a frozen lake' is an adventure film of a lonely man, content with his place in life. 'Norman' is about a man looking at the world, and not interacting with it.

Every collection hopes to become a film at some point.
sometimes these stories become something else. installation, painting, drawing ...


co-owner of MuraMuur.expo



Stillframe from 'Norman'

Biography

"Director Robbe Vervaeke graduated from the School of Arts | KASK Ghent with the animated short film 'Erszebet' (2008), often described as a "phantasmagoric nightmare in oil paint".
Continuing to refine his unique approach to the medium while working on his debut film 'Norman', the film went on to successfully tour the international short film festival circuit, taking home the 'Jean-Luc Xibérras Award
for Best Debut Prize' at the prestigious Annécy International Animated Film Festival in France (2013).


Fighting Pablo


A Cinnamon Entertainment production, All Rights Reserved







Synopsis
A young artist is working on a portrait when an unexpected moment of frustration and doubt shatters his inspiration. Distracted by his own curiosity, he suddenly finds himself engulfed by a grande parade. Buzzing characters spirited from contemporary pop-culture and art-history crystallize out of the air. Unable to resist the charismatic pull of this vast and grotesque world, he joins in on an exploration through his own colorful ambitions. But when Pablo Picasso’s terrific charisma ends up threatening everything he holds dear, he learns to push back in order to rediscover his own voice.

"'Fighting Pablo' is a document of research. In the last couple of months of production, the paint almost started to animate itself. Every touch of oil on the glassplates was an anekdote of paint, uniquely my own."

Credits
Music by Ruben De Gheselle
Re-recording Engineer Jef Aerts
Animation Assistent by Dries Bastiaensen, Emily Lefebvre,
Animation Studio Intern Paola de Sousa
With the support of the Flanders Film Fund
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Technical details
Aspect Ratio : 16:9 HD, Flat
Projection format : HR digital fles (HD 1080p / H.264 mov)
Sound : 5.1 Surround | Stereo | Color, No Dialogue
TRT : 7'30''
Year : January 2018
Country of Production : Belgium


‘Animation and Fine Arts, Freshly Painted’ sidebar screening, Animafest Zagreb, 2019
Official selection 2nd CRAFT International Animation Festival Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia 2019
Official selection Anim!Arte Festival Rio de Janeiro 2019
Honorable Mention 'World Cultures'
Animation Short Film Night, Fes Tiv Art, Loutraki, Greece 2019
Official selection Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Animação de Curitiba ANIMATIBA, Brazil 2019
Jury Award for Best Animation Technique
Official selection Panama Festival 2019
Official selection La Guarimba Film Festival 2019
Official selection Animest Festival, Romania, 2019
Official selection 37th Brussels Animation Film Festival ANIMA Festival 2018
Official selection Leuvenkort 2018
Official selection Animax Skopje Fest #8, Skopje, Macedo


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Norman
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You have to watch out for strange people. you never know what they are capable of.


Norman is a nervous man, wandering to alone through a large city. As we all do, he's looking at things, staring at the world around him. Details of the people around him grow into small obsessions.
He starts playing with the fine line between staring and moving. at some point a small detail becomes fascinating, maybe even irresistible.

Norman acts on his impulses, becoming a dangerous man in a strange city, not completely responsible for the consequences of his actions.


screenplay, direction, animation by Robbe Vervaeke
Produced by Barend Weyens & Leen Derveaux
Background artist: Brecht-Jan Verschuere
Music by Ruben Degheselle
A Cinnamon Entertainment production, All Rights Reserved


With the support of the city of Ghent, and the province of East-Flanders

more information at cinnamon-entertainment

contact about the short film:
Sarah Dhanens : Sarah@cinnamon-entertainment.be


Norman (-trailer-) from automatov petrov on Vimeo.



Format 2K * aspect ratio 16:9
stereo LtRt/5.1 *colour
No dialogues
Running time: 10'
Preview formats: DV PAL / secure online screener
Exhibition formats: DVD / Blu-ray / Digibeta / DCP
2012 Belgium











FILMOGRAPHY, SCREENINGS, FESTIVAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS
Norman (2012)
Official Selection International Film Festival Leuven, Belgium (2012)
Official Selection Anima 2013 Brussels, Belgium (2013)
Official Selection 10th Akbank Short Film Festival (Int. Section),
Istanbul, Turkey (2013)
Official Selection HAFF 2013 Utrecht, the Netherlands (2013)
Official Selection International Film Festival Annecy 2013, France (2013)
Winner Jean­Luc Xiberras Award for Best Debut Award
Official Selection 12th Int. Countryside Animafest Cyprus, 
Views of the World, Cyprus (2013) Official Selection Montréal International Film Festival, Canada (2013)
Official Selection 40th Telluride Colorado XL Film Festival, Colorado, US (2013)
Official Selection 15th Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival,
Brazil (2013)
Official Selection 3rd International Film Festival Ars Independent, 
Katowice, Poland (2013)
Winner Black Horse of Animation Grand Prix Official Selection 8th Anim'est Int. Animation Film Festival, Bucharest, 
Romania (2013)
Official Selection ANIMA VII Festival Int. de Animación de Córdoba, 
Argentina (2013)
Official Selection PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations, 
Budaörs, Hungary (2013)
Official Selection London International Animation Festival (LIAF), UK (2013)
Official Selection 27th International Short Music Festival Braunschweig, 
Germany (2013)
Official Selection Bradford Animation Festival 2013, UK (2013)
Official Selection ZINEBI Int. Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, 
Spain (2013)
Official Selection Animpact Animation Festival, Seoul, Korea (2013)
Official Selection 11th ANILOGUE Int. Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary (2013)
Official Selection 26th Premiers Plans European Film Festival d’Angers, 
France (2014)
Winner Best Musical Creation / European First Short Film Competition
Official Selection 16th Int. Animation Short Film Festival Mecal, Barcelona, 
Spain (2014)
Official Selection 15th Stockholm Int. Film Festical Junior, Stockholm, 
Sweden (2014)
Official Selection Cinerama.BC, Int. Film Festival, Baleneário Camboriú, 
Brazil (2014)
Honorable Mention Best Short Film, Short Film Competition
Official Selection ANIMIX! 14th Tel Aviv Animation Festival, Tel Aviv, 
Israel (2014)
Offcial Selection Lucca Film Festival, Lucca, Italy (2014)
Offcial Selection 10th RICA Festival Wissembourg, France (2014)
Offcial Selection 9th Tehran International Animation Festival (TIAF), Tehran, Iran (2015)
Offcial Selection Athens Animfest 2015 – Marathon program, Athens, Greece (2015)
Offcial Selection 12th Kecskemet Animation Film Festival 2015 (KAFF) -
"Annecy 2013 Awards" program, Kecskemet, Hungary (2015)
and more


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November 2012 Filed under shortfilm, animation, paint 
Perfect Light


This project was made entirely in Dutch.
A video-essay based on 'Perfect Light', a comision for Wattou art festival 2010. It is a painted commentary on 'perfect light', a poem by Ted Hughes.
the entire idea is rooted in the thought to have the camera's do the painting. As an expressionist, accidentally discovering his colours, tones and pallet, I try to take away any sense of control I may have had over oil-painted animation and have the camera's break my work, in order to achieve a completely different sense of painted touch.



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"
There you are, in all your innocence,
Sitting among your daffodils, as in a picture
Posed as for the title: ‘Innocence’.
Perfect light in your face lights it up
Like a daffodil. Like any one of those daffodils
It was to be your only April on earth
Among your daffodils. In your arms,
Like a teddy bear, your new son,
Only a few weeks into his innocence,
Mother and infant, as in the Holy portrait.
And beside you, laughing up at you,
Your daughter, barely two. Like a daffodil
You turn your face down to her, saying something.
Your words were lost in the camera.

And the knowledge
Inside the hill on which you are sitting.
A moated fort hill, bigger than your house,
Failed to reach the picture. While your next moment,
Coming towards you like an infantryman
Returning slowly out of no-man’s-land,
Bowed under something, never reached you—
Simply melted into the perfect light.
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Daffodils from automatov petrov on Vimeo.




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July 2010 Filed under shortfilm, animation, paint, video-work, art-project 
'Moving Foliage' and 'Moving Mangroves'
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