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Departures

Green Parrot goes abroad

  • Natalia Ryss
    Director
  • Natalia Ryss
    Writer
  • Natalia Ryss
    Producer
  • Olshansky Fusion Duo
    Label
  • Evgenia Olshansky
    Composer
  • Natalia Ryss
    Animator
  • Philipp Barsky
    Sound recording and mixing
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Road movie, Comedy, Music Video, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 47 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 7, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,300 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Israel
  • Country of Filming:
    Israel
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Big Cartoon Festival
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
  • Feinaki
    Beijing
    China
  • New Israeli Cinema
    Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Beer-Sheva...
    Israel
  • Amarcort FF, Italy
    Rimini
    Italy
    Italian Premiere
    Official Selection (Cantarel Category)
  • Cinematika Festival, Short & Music Video Contest
    Gdansk
    Poland
  • Animakom Fest
    Bilbao
    Spain
    December 14, 2024
  • ANIMATIBA - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE ANIMAÇÃO DE CURITIBA
    Curitiba
    Brazil
  • MONSTRA
    Lisbon
    Portugal
  • MIAF, Melbourne International Animation Festival
    Melbourne
    Australia
  • 24FRAME Future Film Fest
    Modena
    Italy
  • Animation festival Kyiv
    Kyiv
    Ukraine
    special program of Israeli animation
  • International Animation Festival “Soleil”
    Sozopol
    Bulgaria
  • Anibar Animation Festival
    Peja
    Kosovo
  • Insomnia

    Russian Federation
  • Happy Valley Animation Festival
    Pennsylvania
    United States
Director Biography - Natalia Ryss

Creator of animated and experimental shorts.
Works as an independent filmmaker and in collaboration with different producers.
Prefers non-conventional structure of narration and expressive editing + mixing of art-styles.
Participant of numerous festivals.

Was born in Rostov-on-Don.
Graduated from Art College and VGIK.
Since 2015 lives in Israel.

2025 – “Dance of Creation”
2025 – “Dawnlight”
2024 – “Starting Over”
2024 - “Glimmer”
2024 - “Departures”
2023 - "In Threes"
2023 - "Simple Forms"
2023 - "Swimming pool - Fushigi Man"
2023 - “Cricket”
2022 - “hi Radish Man”
2020 - “Alexander Mosolov. Three Pieces” & “François Couperin. The Alarm Clock”
2020 – Intro- animated videos for “Iso Film Fest”
2019 - “Comte”
2019 - 2023 - super shorts experimental films for the festival Scha 5-7 sec Animated Film Festival
2018 - "Clock Face"
2015 - "Tucuman"
2014 – experimental film “COLISEIDOSCOPE”
2013 - "The Catfish and the Moon"
2011 - ''Itsihitanantsu"
2009 – experimental film “DOZURBA”
2009 – animator on film “Gosha's tales”
2007 - “The Magpie's gossip”.
2005 – "Piramidka"

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Director Statement

fragment Q&A Dina Goder (Big Cartoon Festival 2024) with Natalia Ryss, film "Departures":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITm4T-_v5Y

Train rhythms, anxieties of flight... Be it for distraction or experience, escape or adventure, the journey is under way.

Collage music video and experiment with narration and... pixels ))))
Collage Cut-out animation, Zoom + Screenshot Pixel Stop Motion Animation, mix video
animation - Natalia Ryss
music - Olshansky Fusion Duo

Has anyone created Stop Motion from Screenshots with zooming to pixels and moving frame by frame? If not - it's my invention.
It's like work under a microscope, where any slight movement is like an adventure in an unknown space... with each new shot... it's like Leeuwenhoek and microbes )))
"They are moving!!!"
Pixels become alive.
...and if you turn layers off or on frame by frame, change their level or location... This radically changes the space. It looks similar to the cameraless animation technique. The difference is that even one picture become the subject of endless combinations in this animation technique!
This technique was used in this film in abstract scenes in combination with paper collage.

So... The release date is... 25.04.24