Time(s) To Breathe
It is about the breath. And about thoughts. It is not about how to control your thoughts, but all about to stop your thoughts controlling you.
We walk through our life, childhood, teenage years, years in which we earn money and raise our children and eventually we enter the serenity of age. That said, it is about birth and death as well.
Time(s) To Breathe takes the attentive viewer/listener on a journey, at the end of which his condition should have changed: he breathes calmer and more consciously. An exciting animated film that directly involves the viewer/listener.
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Stan AdardDirector
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Stan AdardWriter
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astradream (Team)Producer
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Mihaly HorvathSoundscape
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Magno LaracuentePainted Artwork
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Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Feature, Short
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Genres:Conscious Breathing, Experimental, Health, Psychology
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Runtime:3 minutes 9 seconds
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Completion Date:May 14, 2019
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Production Budget:25,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Switzerland
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital, 1998 x 1080, 25 fps
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Aspect Ratio:37:20
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Zero Degree Film ContestMohali, Punjab
India
January 3, 2020
India Premiere
Award Winner -
European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground)Moscow
Russian Federation
October 2, 2020
Russia Premiere
Award Winner -
International Film Festival of Andaman and NicobarAndaman and Nicobar
India
February 11, 2021
Premiere in Andaman
Winner -
BLASTOFFLos Angeles, CA
United States
March 14, 2020
Finalist -
Moscow Film PartyMoscow
Russian Federation
January 26, 2020
Russia Premiere
Semi-Finalist -
NexGn International Short Film FestivalPune, Maharashtra
India
December 21, 2019
Semi-Finalist -
New York Movie AwardsNew York
United States
February 3, 2020
Official Selection -
Florence Film AwardsFlorence
Italy
October 6, 2019
Italy Premiere
Official Selection -
Marina del Rey Film FestivalMarina Del Rey, California
United States
October 18, 2019
USA premiere
Official Selection -
ZShorts International Film FestivalSanta Barbara, CA
United States
February 22, 2020
Official Selection -
Madrid Film AwardsMadrid
Spain
January 11, 2020
Spain Premiere
Official Selection -
Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film FestivalBeverly Hills, CA
United States
November 7, 2019
West Coast Premiere
Official Selection -
Open World Toronto Film FestivalToronto
Canada
November 26, 2020
Canada Premiere
Semi-Finalist
Born in 1954 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland), I am a Swiss national. After high school, I graduated from the University of Zurich with a master degree in Education and Social Psychology. With my wife Christine I’m married since 1982, and together we have three wonderful adult sons.
I have always been extremely interested in the interplay between man and machine ever since I obtained my very first computer, a Tandy Radio Shack that I bought with my older brother in 1977.
As the owner and director of an international software company, I have been privileged to create and realize new ideas in the field of digital art and software since its advent.
Breathing is life. Every single cell in our body needs oxygen to produce energy.
Exhaling transports toxins and waste products out of our body.
There exists a strong connection between breathing and our mental state. Within the
natural instinct to fight our fears, control our thoughts, and to arrive at a deeper state
of inner contemplation, conscious breathing plays a monumental part in this process.
Practiced regularly over a long period of time, conscious breathing leads to better self-control, the dissipation of fear, and, finally, to the realization that we are essentially thinking beings and that every thought duly has a beginning and an end. We come to realize that it's just our thoughts that plunge us into fear; and that many of these frightful thoughts are deliberately fomented to manipulate people.
This mechanism must be broken.