Kinodvor Gallery
30. 11.–8. 12.

With her humorous animations, the Animateka 2024 artist-in-residence, Estonian self-taught animator Chintis Lundgren takes us through the dynamics of interpersonal relations, the backdrop for the main protagonists on their way to achieving personal integrity and sexual authenticity. The display includes original drawings from the animations Life with Herman H. Rott (2015), Manivald (2017), and Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves (2019).

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Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator currently living in France. Self-taught, Lundgren’s body of work includes an assortment of quirky music videos, PSAs, and short films featuring a light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters. In 2011, Lundgren created her own animation studio called Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio and later co-founded Adriatic Animation, an animation studio based in Croatia.

Her films (including the award-winning shorts, Manivald (2017) and Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)) have screened at numerous international festivals including Sundance, Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Hiroshima and Ottawa.

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