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The Lying Angel

Have Noah and Darwin overlooked anything?
Aboard the 'Lying Angel' the party of the most successful liars is getting completely out of hand. Who survives the Homo Sapiens, who is the greatest fantasist here?

  • Geert Vandenbroele
    Director
    Good News, Diamond
  • Kris Mergan
    Director
    Good News, Diamond
  • Kris Mergan
    Writer
    Good News, Diamond
  • Geert Vandenbroele
    Writer
    Good News, Diamond
  • Kris Mergan (Mergans Telewerk)
    Producer
    Good News, Diamond, Löss, Gerontophobia
  • Erik Schut (Rocketta film)
    Producer
    RED-END AND THE FACTORY PLANT, Diamond, JONA/TOMBERRY, WAAROM WOLVEN HUILEN...
  • Nicole Josy
    Key Cast
  • Eva Schram
    Key Cast
  • Chiel Van Berkel
    Key Cast
  • Geert Vandenbroele
    Animators
  • Tim De Groot
    Animators
  • Astor Piazzolla
    Music
    "Oblivion"
  • Nicole Josy & Hugo Sigal
    Music
    "Goeiemorgen morgen"
  • Frederik Van de Moortel
    Music
  • Frederik Van de Moortel
    Sound
  • Jos van Galen
    Sound
  • Max van den Oever
    Sound
  • Lawrence Horne
    Sound
  • Wietse Beels
    Sound
  • Fred Becker
    Sound
  • Camiel Muiser
    Sound
  • Merlin de Cloe
    Sound
  • Christian Muiser
    Sound
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 6, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    171,210 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Belgium
  • Country of Filming:
    Belgium
  • Language:
    Dutch
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ANIMA Brussels
    Flagey, Brussels
    Belgium
    February 23, 2020
    première
    nomination national competition
  • 5th Chaniartoon 2020
    Chania
    Greece
    August 31, 2020
    official selection
  • Leuven International Short Film Festival
    Louvain
    Belgium
    December 10, 2020
    official selection
Distribution Information
  • Kris Mergan
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Geert Vandenbroele, Kris Mergan

Kris Mergan from Brussels, pioneer computer animator in the eighties, climbed several times on stage at Imagina, Parigraph, Siggraph and produced during these years hundreds of 3D TV title sequences. But as soon as he started his own production house in the mid-nineties, focus changed to more artistic projects like "Good News", "Löss" and "Diamond", all award winning animation films on many festivals. He teaches animation film at the LUCA School of Arts, Brussels.

Since 2000 Geert Vandenbroele has been the author of various animated films that have been nominated and have won film prizes. His films are moving paintings that float on the edge between art and kitsch and between humor and seriousness.
The viewer is taken on a mental trip trough different layers of messages and atmospheres.
His universe and visual language is often based on naive modern art and the style of old Flemish masters. He teaches animation film at Luca-arts Brussels.

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Director Statement

"The Lying Angel" wants to talk about the worlds that are not, that exist parallel to reality (but do have an impact on it). About lies and deception, alternative representations of the truth that make the power of the great even greater. But also about romantics and storytellers who also represent a different world but who often have very different intentions for it. Are these worlds equivalent to 'reality'? For some, they mean even more.

With "The Lying Angel" we present an alternative theory of evolution, which looks ahead to the consequences of the ever harder lying human and the new hominoid that can come from it. Will it be a wolf in a sheepskin, a 'Lying Angel'? Or does it become a mythological figure between man and god like the winged lion that contains both the royal of a ruler and the lightness of an angel?