On Weary Wings Go By / Linnud läinud / Ko ptice odlete
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (Fork Film, ART SHOT, Moon Birds Studios)
2024, Estonia, Lithuania, 11'
A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
Zimska pesem o nordijski naravi. Sonce je nizko in dnevi se krajšajo. Ptice letijo na jug, porcelanaste živali in žuželke se skrivajo pred ledenim vetrom in snegom. Le majhna porcelanasta deklica brezizhodno tava po zapuščeni pokrajini.
Recommended for children under 14 years old: No
Technique: Puppet animation
Team
Script: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Key Animator: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Additional Animators: Margrethe Danielsen, Olga Stalev, Hung Huei Jen
Music: Maarja Nuut
Distribution: Lights On
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
graduated with a MA degree in animation at Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013. She made her first animation Fly Mill/ Kärbeste veski (2012) a puppet film as her graduation film. Fly Mill has screened in more than hundred festivals around the world and won numerous prizes. Her first film after graduation, a short animated film On The Other Side Of The Woods/ Teisel pool metsa premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival and has won three First Prizes and a Best Debut prize at festivals. For the past ten years Anu-Laura has been working on a stop-motion trilogy of films shot outdoors with porcelain puppets as characters. The first in the trilogy Winter In The Rainforest shot in the jungles of Mexico and Peru premiered at Annecy International Animation Festival in June 2019. It received three Grand Prix’s and eight special prizes at festivals. The second film On Weary Wings Go By shot at the snowy beach in the winter in Estonia and Norway premiered at the prestigious Locarno film festival in August 2024. The third film of the trilogy is yet to be made. Anu-Laura has made set designs for numerous stop motion animations such as The Lemonade Tale (2013) by Vallo Toomla, Tik-Tak (2015), Empty Space (2016) and ‘Til We Meet Again (2021) by Ülo Pikkov at Nukufilm studio in Estonia. She has worked as a puppet designer for a feature stop motion Morten on the Ship of Fools (2018, Estonia, Ireland, Belgium) by Kaspar Jancis and a short stop motion film Man Wanted (2019, Greece, Estonia) by Irida Zhonga. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg teaches animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Find more: www.anulaura.com