Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA November 12th - 15th, 2026
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Selection
Frankenstein's Dream
2025
Duration: 13:55
Directed: Simon Pummell
Screenplay: Simon Pummell, Margot Knijn
Production: Marc Thelosen, Koert Davidse, Steven Dhoedt
Dialogue Language: No Dialogue
Do we control technology and language,or are they parasites that use us as a host and breeding ground? In FRANKENSTEIN'S DREAM strange satellites release spores over foraging humanoids. The infected creatures struggle towards speech, but the technology demands a bloody price. To reflect this struggle between flesh and code, the creatures in the film are made by wrapping layers of watercolour drawings - made of blood, bone-black, ivory, and other physical pigments - onto 3D CGI skeletons and digital scans of real human and animal skulls - and given life borrowed (through MOCAP) from dancers.
Duration: 13:55
Directed: Simon Pummell
Screenplay: Simon Pummell, Margot Knijn
Production: Marc Thelosen, Koert Davidse, Steven Dhoedt
Dialogue Language: No Dialogue
Do we control technology and language,or are they parasites that use us as a host and breeding ground? In FRANKENSTEIN'S DREAM strange satellites release spores over foraging humanoids. The infected creatures struggle towards speech, but the technology demands a bloody price. To reflect this struggle between flesh and code, the creatures in the film are made by wrapping layers of watercolour drawings - made of blood, bone-black, ivory, and other physical pigments - onto 3D CGI skeletons and digital scans of real human and animal skulls - and given life borrowed (through MOCAP) from dancers.
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