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Sand Wanderer

As the world starts moving around him, the young desert dweller decides to follow the footprints of his fellow tribesmen to the origin of natural forces, time.

  • Eric Giessmann
    Director
    Typewriterhead
  • Eric Giessmann
    Writer
  • Marc Thelosen (Serious Film)
    Producer
  • Wiebe de Boer
    Sound Designer
  • Michel Banabila
    Composer
  • Maurits Overdulve
    Foley Artist
  • Ernie Tee
    Script Coach
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany, Netherlands
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Athens Animfest
  • Go Shorts Film Festival
  • Melbourne Internatinal Animation Festival
  • Seoul Guro IKF Festival
Distribution Information
  • Ursula van den Heuvel ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
    Country: Netherlands
Director Biography - Eric Giessmann

.BIOGRAPHY

1987 Born in NRW Dormagen, Germany.
2009 Internship @ Parasol Island GmbH, a film interactive and animation studio in Düsseldorf, Germany.
2012 Membership @ Galerie-Werkstatt Bayer Dormagen e.V.
2015 Bachelor of Design - cum laude.
2017 Direction: SAND WANDERER @ seriousFilm

.HIGHLIGHTS
 Playgrounds Best Student Award 2009, “Dream Symphony” – „For an outstanding visual achievement. “
 1. Place @ D’Art 2013
 1. Place @ D’Art „Tempus Stasis” 2015
 WILDCARD ANIMATION 2014 Nederlands Film Fonds
 Vimeo Staffpick “TYPEWRITERHEAD” 2014 (60000 views)
 2. Place @ D’Art 2017

.FILMOGRAPHY
2007 Veteran
2008 Wrong bet
2008 DreamSynphony
2009 Menschenbeifall
2014 Negentropy & Progression
2015 TYPEWRITERHEAD
2017 Sand Wanderer

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Director Statement

In life, like Sisyphos, we often have to try things over and over again until we reach our goal, and we can draw positive or negative conclusions from the obstacles that present themselves on our path. This is our scope of action and within it time is the only constant. Compared to the cosmos, we are quite insignificant. However, this also gives us a certain kind of freedom to change things within our limited environment without risking being punished by God for a wrong decision. As we see in this film, he often has quite different concerns.
If we reduce the essence of ‚being‘ to our individual perception of existence, then, in my opinion, we are never really dead, but merely experience a recurring reality. Time is change is God is life is space.
The film reflects the struggle and the melancholy that life holds, but also the irony and hope that a new beginning brings.