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TAK$A / The Dachshund in a Picture Frame

Logline
Sometimes greed can lead to the loss of a magical gift.
Main idea:
One of the most difficult tasks for an artist is to find a balance between creativity and wealth.
Synopsis
An artist, is blessed with a magical gift – she can bring paintings to life with the mere touch of her brush.
Unfortunately for her, as often happens, this unique ability goes to her head. One day, having accepted money for a future piece, and greedily revelling in her new-found wealth, she touches the banknotes with her brush.
The money springs to life, but the paintings fall silent, however hard she tries to make them speak! It’s a punishment: the magical gift is gone, her talent is no more, and her brushes dance as if mocking her. With the commissioned piece ruined, she sits and sobs in despair. Then she hears a whisper: “There’s a chance – give it back, give it back, maybe if you give the money back, your gift will return!”

  • Tatiana Skorlupkina
    Director
    Director, script, design, animation, cast, original music, editing, special effects, post –production, typeface design
  • Tatiana Skorlupkina
    Writer
  • Tatiana Skorlupkina
    Producer
  • Tatiana Skorlupkina
    Key Cast
    "artist"
  • Vladimir Oksman
    Key Cast
    "Art lover"
  • Tatiana Skorlupkina
    music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    TAK$A
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 5, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Russian Federation
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    mix media
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16x9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • 14 days to eternity FILM FESTIVAL
    Barcelona
    Spain
    December 1, 2024
    Award “Best experimental film”
  • 14th Seattle Children's Festival
    Seattle
    United States
    January 21, 2019
    Premier
  • 69th Montecatini International Short Film Festival
    Montecatini Groto
    Italy
    October 25, 2018
    europian
    Official selection
  • “Vip Fest “
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 8, 2025
    Finalist
  • 32th Pyongyang International Film Festival
    Pyongyang
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    September 25, 2018
  • FAM Fest International Film Festival
    Rock Hill, SC - SOUTH CAROLINA
    United States
    August 8, 2018
  • Kino-Likbez. Saint Petersburg.
    Saint-Petersburg
    Russian Federation
    June 27, 2018
  • MikroFAF - International festival of DIY and independent short film
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    September 20, 2018
  • KINOdiseea International children film festival
    Buharest
    Romania
    November 14, 2018
  • 14th Athens ANIMFEST
    Athens
    Greece
    March 15, 2019
  • 9th Cambodia International Film Festival
    Phnom Penh
    Cambodia
    March 19, 2019
    selection
  • OLBIA FILM NETWORK-Figari Film Fest,
    Olbia
    Italy
    June 5, 2019
    Official Video Library
  • On Art-Poland
    Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, Wrocław
    Poland
    August 10, 2019
    official competition
  • 20th Woodstock Museum Film Festival
    Woodstock
    United States
    August 21, 2019
    official competition
  • Minikino Film Week 5
    Bali
    Indonesia
    October 8, 2019
    official competition
  • DEA OPEN AIR International Film Festival
    Tirana
    Albania
    May 22, 2019
    selection
  • KG FILM FESTIVAL
    Kragujevac
    Serbia
    January 3, 2020
    official competition
  • Pentedattilo Film Festival
    Reggio Calabria
    Italy
    September 19, 2019
    semi-finalist
  • Ferfilm Festival
    Kosova
    Serbia
    September 5, 2021
    selected
  • 14 days to eternity
    Barcelona
    Spain
    June 30, 2024
    Award
  • Fantastic Barcelona
    Barcelona
    Spain
    May 31, 2024
    Award
  • Fantastic Barcelona, Spain
    Barcelona, Spain
    September 1, 2024
    Award “Best animated film”
Distribution Information
  • LLC Trendvind Art - Studio "Fedor Sever"
    Country: Russian Federation
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Tatiana Skorlupkina

Tatyana Skorlupkina is a musician, artist, composer, director, animator, and screenwriter, and the creator of a new ‘art of the screen’.
Graduated from Glazunov Music Conservatory in Petrozavodsk and the Faculty of Arts and Graphics of Saint-Petersburg Herzen University.
Member of Artists’ Union of Russia.
Director of Art-studio "Fedor Sever"
Her innovative cinematic works lead viewers into a world come alive, where genres are transformed and interwoven; here, images are music, music is images, and literary works both ‘vibrate and narrate’. Themes and characters from individual canvases and films migrate to others, always trying on new roles.
The imagination and compositional virtuosity of artist and musician Tatiana Skorlupkina intermingle with the irony and bravery of writer Fedor Sever (Tatiana’s literary pseudonym), resulting in the remarkable creative tandems of her films, animations, and multimedia projects.

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Director Statement

It is sense of proportion, a balance between occupied and free space, that creates harmony and a compositional perfection in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, theatre, and cinema…
Embracing this concept changes perspectives, and works miracles. © Т.S.