Brother

Filmstill Brother

Brother

Brother
Marcus Grysczok
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Germany
2022
2 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German

In only ninety seconds Marcus Grysczok tells a touching personal story of loss and takes us to great emotional depths. Tune in: an electronically distorted outcry. The protagonist talks to himself and to someone who no longer lives in this world, but all the more in his heart. He looks for a way out of this state of powerlessness, assuming a stranger’s role, a free-roaming paper dog that runs between real shelves and across tables, races past people on black-and-white photographs and everyday objects, chases himself on a plate rim. The images convey a feeling of home – a home for memory and for life. Tune out? As soon as the dog stops, reality puts an end to this restless racket and brings the awareness of enduring loss. Poetic in language and design, the film formulates a moving but clear-eyed farewell to a brother.

André Eckardt

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Director
Marcus Grysczok
Script
Marcus Grysczok
Cinematographer
Marcus Grysczok
Editor
Marcus Grysczok
Producer
Marcus Grysczok, Ana M. Vallejo Cuartas
Co-Producer
Marcus Grysczok
Sound
Roosmarijn Tuenter
Animation
Marcus Grysczok
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award