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RAPIN*

Swedish singer/songwriter Jenny Wilson doesn't pull any punches on new album Exorcism, detailing her first-hand experience of a harrowing sexual assault and its aftermath. The confrontational and purposefully disturbing video "Rapin*" should come with a trigger warning: Hypnotic animation by Gustaf Holtenäs lures you in to bear witness to the horrifying, graphically-depicted events, forcing you to contend with the awful truth of sexual assault, even if it leaves you sickened (as it should).

  • Gustaf Holtenäs
    Director
  • Gustaf Holtenäs, Jenny WIlson
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Horror, surrealism, assault
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 18, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    4,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Sweden
  • Country of Filming:
    Sweden
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Guthenburg film festival
    Guthenburg
    Sweden
    January 26, 2018
    Swedish premiere
  • flux screenings, Hammer museum
    los angeles
    United States
    March 20, 2018
    North American premiere
  • RSC Short fest Denver film society
    Denver, colorado
    United States
    May 18, 2018
    official selection
  • 58th Krakow Film Festival
    Krakow
    Poland
    June 1, 2018
    Polish premiere
    Official selection
  • Linoleum
    Kiev
    Ukraine
    September 9, 2018
    Ukrainan Premiere
    Special Jury mention + International competition
  • mvf awards brazil MTV
    sao paolo
    Brazil
    September 30, 2018
    South American premiere
    nominated for best music video of the year
  • 11th Animasyros
    syros
    Greece
    September 28, 2018
    Greek premiere
    official selection
Director Biography - Gustaf Holtenäs

Fine art Konstfack.
www.gustafholtenas.com

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Director Statement

My most ambitious animation project ever, and by far the most difficult to make.
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Mainly of all the decisions taken on how to portrait someone’s experience of being raped. That everything I draw to this project will be charged with the theme itself.
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Secondly of the time consuming process of drawing over 2000 images. And wanting to create someting in the Akira quality alone.
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Discussions between me and Jenny started in May -17, and I started drawing in september. Little did we know that the #metoo campaign would explode the same autumn.