A Finnish Fable 2011

A homage to Carmen D'Avino's film A Finnish Fable (USA, 1960).

In this work a melancholy male mannequin is being busy in the south-western Finnish summer cottage milieu.

I wanted to try many different and new approaches with this work. Making animation outdoors, in weather circumstances that are beyound the control of the auteur, had an impact on the execution and the outcome. Animating large objects was new to me, too.

I wanted to investigate especially if it is possible to portray a stiffly moving mannequin in such a manner that the viewer believes in the reality of this character and forgets the fact that the actor is a lifeless mannequin.