Vivid Memories

It's about a penguin who lives in Antarctica, and manage to rebirth old memories while she is playing with her recently new beach ball floated up next to her.

  • Marq Persson
    Director
  • Marq Persson
    Writer
  • Marq Persson
    Producer
  • Andres Mänd / Head of Anim Dept - Volda University College
    Producer
  • Nancy Denney-Phelps / Voice - Penguin
    Key Cast
  • Nancy Denney-Phelps
    Special Thanks
  • Nik Phelps
    Special Thanks
  • Stein-Chistian Fagerbakken
    Big Thanks
  • Helga Fjeldså
    Big Thanks
  • Morsan
    Big Thanks
  • Ivan Dujmusic
    Big Thanks
  • Erica Öhren
    Big Thanks
  • Eduardo Garcia
    Big Thanks
  • Andres Mänd
    Big Thanks
  • Freesound.org
    Big Thanks
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Norway
  • Country of Filming:
    Norway
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Full HD (1920x1080)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Volda University College
  • Frame by Frame ~ Grafill Animasjon
    Oslo
    Norway
    September 26, 2017
    Worldwide
    Official Selection
  • Animation Volda Festival
    Volda
    Norway
    September 22, 2017
    Worldwide
    Selection
Director Biography - Marq Persson

Marq Persson has found his call in life! He has totally 6 years of education in animation. 2 years in Sweden and 4 years in Norway. While studying animation in Norway in 2013, Marq was Festival leader in Animation Volda Festival. Which they celebrated 100 years of Norwegian animation history, with a strong collaboration with Fredrikstad Animation Festival. He also assist close to the school a mizy preparatory work for Norman McLaren Exhibition at Norwegian Animation Center in Volda.

Through a couple of years Marq have manage to have a few works in the industry e.g. Animert Litteratur (Animation workshop for children in Volda, Norway.), Inbetween works via Stockholm University of the Arts (UNIARTS) in Sweden and Compositing works via Copenhagen Bombay.

Marq Persson's love and passion is 2D animation, Stopmotion, Collage and all other kinds of Experimental animation. And for the last handful years, Compositing, Video art and Experimental Mixed Media has grown strongly within him more and more by the years... And now here the year 2020... Marq debut his Graduation film Tainted Fruit! ^^

In future more new ideas are in a good planning, which would be a dream come true to vivify and actualize! ^^

~ Please! Visit my Vimeo page for more information and videos! ^^

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Director Statement

Technical Clarity:
Technique 100% Animation: Stopmotion & Puppet Animation
School Url: https://www.hivolda.no/en
And In selection i can provide both in DCP 2K and/or Mov Full HD!

Director Statement:
I would like to shed some light on one of my old sweet animation I manage to create at school in Norway, Vivid Memories! What I really wanna to do here is to “rebirth” or more and less revive it and try to see if it have some cute power left for more festivals.

Vivid Memories is an old cute school project I did in 2014-2016, but were first finalized spring 2017. The main area was to learn lipsync and all the basics of creating a stop motion puppet and in the end of course animate. I had this idea of either using a child voice or and old person and in the end I manage to get hold of Nik and Nancy, and of all surprises Nancy basically gave me her own voice, which made me very happy in the end ^^ ...All hugs for both of you! ^^

To have no direct planing of what to expect I must say the voice I got from Nancy and my animation of a penguin, it do gives a sence of history and a real feeling of an old memory emerging from the youth.

~ Cheers!
Marq