Dir: André Bergs
The Netherlands, 2009, 5'
3D computer, without dialogue
Prod: il Luster Productions
When a man is witness to a murder and takes pictures of the killer, he has to run for his life. During the chase he is able to turn the tables and the prey becomes the hunter. All resulting in an unfortunate ending.
André Bergs
Born in 1979 and graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts, André Bergs has worked as a freelance animator and director on several productions, and also as a freelance lecturer at the Danish Animation Workshop and the Utrecht School of the Arts. "Pivot" was a joint effort between the studios Plastiek (André Bergs, Arno de Grijs), Soulbase (Floris Vos) and Artibite (Kevin Megens).
Having grown up in a 3D culture that was mostly trying to recreate reality, I felt that this way was a dead-end street and didn't do justice to the medium. For a previous work, I used very simple edgy models to test my idea that the believability of a movie doesn't depend on the amount of polygons or quality of the shader, but on the actual placements of the points and the quality of animation. It allowed us to make a very stylised graphic film that showed the subjective experience of the main character, and at the same time to have a clear Computer Generated film that used the limitations and strengths of the medium. It doesn't pretend to be in a "real" world, and yet it lives.
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