Exhibition: 10 years of StopTrik festival

How did it all begin? Why would someone even organize a festival, dedicated solely to stop motion animation? Why does this festival, from its very beginnings, have a director and a programme director from Poland? Who saved the festival in 2013 and why did it even need saving? Why did it have a different producer for a year? Which workshop was really legendary? Why does the festival have such an eclectic visual style? Why is a stop motion festival always focused on a particular theme? Why is there always talk of the red carpet? What’s in that bottle without a label that is allegedly always passed around after the programme ends in the evenings? What’s the deal with those chestnuts? Where does the affirmation “Another year, and then it’s really over!” come from? Why does the festival never take place in a real cinema like, for example, Animateka?

You will not find answers to these questions at the exhibition, but you will be able to see posters, festival trailers and stop motion animations from the workshops.

Kaja Fiedler