Dir: Anita Killi
Norway, 2009, 20’
Cut-out animation
English title: “Angry Man”
Prod: Trollfilm
“Sinna Mann” is a film about secrets that shouldn’t be secret.
When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.
Anita Killi
Born in 1968 in Stavanger, Norway, Anita Killi majored in Animation (multiplan technique) at the National College of Art and Design, where she graduated in 1996. She has since established her own animation studio, Trollfilm AS. Anita Kill contributed to and directed a number of adverts, documentaries and commissioned films, as well as the shorts “The King that Wanted More than a Crown” (1999) and “The Hedge of Thorns” (2001), nominated for the Cartoon d’Or and winner of numerous international awards.
I wanted to create a strong and aesthetic film about a difficult topic – domestic violence – for both children and adults. My goal – and hope – is that the film will help to break the silence and the secrets surrounding domestic violence. I wanted the film to function both in therapy and teaching situations, but also as a free artistic film, to reach and touch as many as possible.
Animating directly under the camera, with a cut-out and multi-level technique, completely without data manipulation, gives the film a special texture and vulnerability, where small "mistakes" can help to emphasize our unpolished reality and inadequacy.
Not many people will initially decide to see a serious movie about domestic violence, but when this film is selected for festivals and perhaps gets educational distribution, the message will reach many viewers: "Pass it on!" To achieve this has been very important to me, and I may sometimes have made some pedagogical choices rather than artistic ones to get my message through.
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