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Balloon girl
Director:
Martina Frajštáková
Country:
Slovakia
year: 2015
Running Time:
15
Technique:
2D computer
Category:
Student film
Producer:
Ondrej Šulaj
Distributor:
Elena Brtáňová
The program:
Synopsis
Hair is said to be the crown of beauty…but in this case, it’s more of a thorn-crown. In a small town with its own fashion-icon lives a girl, plagued by her own unfortunate hair. It keeps preventing her to live a normal life and she can’t seem to find any way to win this fight. Or?
Director's BIO
While having studied grammar school, the admiration for animation unexpectedly led her to
Academy of Music and performing Arts in Bratislava – Department of Animation (2007).
In 2015 she achieved the doctoral degree.
The short film Balloon Girl is part of her disertation work, which tried to explore
the influence of japanese animated culture on it. The author focuses her work on hand-drawn/2D animation
which could be seen in movies Blue Tiger and Tiger Fight.
Currently a freelancer, working on small projects,
popculture webcomics for fun and a possible own original comic in the future.Contacts
mata.frajstak@azet.sk
