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Ploo

Ploo
Jon Frickey
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Germany
2025
15 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
German premiere

This film grows somewhere between “forever” and “no longer”, between infinity and constraint, between absoluteness and concreteness. Everything is set in a square format, the original or pixel shape. But this square seems to be like a mirror facing another mirror, a self-referential optical illusion of infinity – with more than a grain of salt. We experience the humorous negotiation of an eternal issue of dispute among visual artists: Can a mathematically calculated vector line, scalable ad infinitum, inspire the same feelings in the beholder as a finite, imperfectly drawn line of pixels? Is the former not the visual equivalent of the neo-liberal illusion of infinite growth – shiny, but sickening? Could the mysterious pixelated moth resolve this eternal dispute? It guards the “Vectorial Superlooper” to ensure that this marvellous invention does not fall into the wrong hands.
Jon Frickey spans an arc from our absurd, finite existence to the technological inventions that shape our sense of style, our taste, and thus our life. His film is a tongue-in-cheek declaration of love to the technology and aesthetics of the past 60 years: to pixel art, video games, television series, vector monitors – and, of course, to pixels and vectors themselves.


Irina Rubina

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Director
Jon Frickey
Script
Jon Frickey
Editor
Jon Frickey
Producer
Jon Frickey
Sound
Thies Mynther
Sound Design
Thies Mynther, Peter Brokhøj
Score
Thies Mynther
Animation
Jon Frickey
Animation Technique
2D Digital, 3D Digital

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Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award