Money and Happiness
- Short Animated Film
- 9' 48''
- 2022
- Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia
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Hamsters live and work in Hamsterland, a perfect state with a perfect economy. The GDP grows steadily, there is no unemployment, and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy.
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"For a great black-humored critique of the "new corporate order" and enslavement to the peculiar society of Hamsterland, whose premises of 100% employment and "stable economy" with a permanently growing GDP are based on the definition of their overly constructed, self-deceptive happiness of "accumulation" and belief in the "sanctity" of exponential capital growth despite the all-consuming blackness of financial slavery, which cuts off the contours of freedom while ultimately questioning happiness and money as disparate concepts."
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Comitee: Polona Petek, Miha Hočevar, Igor Palčič, Simon Tanšek (alternate) Explication
»Kratki animirani film O denarju in sreči je zgodba o utopični skupnosti hrčkov, ki živijo v iluziji popolne družbe in se složno izrekajo za srečne. V ozadju scenarij seveda razkriva drugo resnico. Gre za metaforo o našem svetu zapovedane totalitete in hiper produktivnosti in skrajnega konzumizma, ki naj bi prinašala srečo. Negativna utopija in cinična pravljica o denarju. Tema je univerzalna in verodostojna, čeprav ne najbolj izvirna, saj je totalitarizem in uniformnost predmet številnih uprizoritev. Struktura animirane zgodbe je enostavna, vendar ekspresivna. Liki so množica in nastopajo kot kolektivni subjekt nasproti sistemu. Njihova likovna zasnova je uniformna, vendar duhovita. Navzočnost Slovenije, Slovencev, slovenskega jezika oziroma slovenske kulture v scenariju je prisotna v univerzalnem sporočilu, sicer pa je pri projektu zasedba slovenskih soavtorjev precejšnja. Pričakovana privlačnost filma za slovenski in evropski oziroma mednarodni kulturni prostorje precejšnja pri ljubiteljih animiranega filma. Odmevnost dela režiserskega tandema je nesporna, njuna dela so prikazana in nagrajena na mnogih festivalih animiranega filma. Producenti načrtujejo pet snemalnih dni v Sloveniji ter postprodukcijo zvoka. Odmevnost dela glavnega producenta je nesporna. Odmevnost dela slovenskega koproducenta je nesporna. Finančni načrt in predračun sta utemeljena.”
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