Anna Mantzaris' stop-motion short 'Please' explores human neediness with Stellan Skarsgård
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Katy Cowan
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Anna Mantzaris returns with a stop-motion short film titled "Please," a comedy exploring human neediness and the longing to love and be loved. The film features Stellan Skarsgård as the voice of Winston, won Best Short Film at Animafest Zagreb, and will screen at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It presents a series of loosely connected, tender and absurd scenes that put the needy parts of human nature on display.
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· 3 pulledMost of us spend a fair amount of energy hiding the needy, pathetic parts of ourselves. (I know I do.) Anna Mantzaris wanted to put them on screen instead.
Her new stop-motion short, Please, is a comedy about the very human longing to love and be loved – told through a run of loosely connected, tender and absurd scenes
The film won Best Short Film at Animafest Zagreb earlier this month and will be screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival
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