Welcome to Ganzanderes/Malin Erixon. I work with illustration and animated film, contracted as well as independent productions. My films have been screened at film festivals all over the world – for example at the Sundance Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Nordisk Panorama and Stockholm International Film Festival, as well as places like Studion at the Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm and Liljevalchs Art Gallery. I'm honoured to have received several nominations and awards for my work. For instance, in 2015 I was nominated for a Swedish Film Academy Award, a Guldbagge and in 2022 I received the Liljevalchs and San Michele Foundation scholarship ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
KIKAREN / THE SPYGLASS (short film, 2022)
THE SPYGLASS is a 2D-animated short fiction film by Malin Erixon.
World premiere at Göteborg Film Festival, the largest film festival in the nordic countries, on January 29, 2022.
International premiere at Palm Springs International ShortFest, the largest festival for short film in North America and the US. June 24, 2022. 🙂
LOGLINE
Eden feels forgotten by and invisible to her parents, who often quarrel or are busy with other things. As an escape, Eden seeks company in her imagination through a self-made spyglass, which turns out to be magical.
SYNOPSIS
Ten-year-old Eden feels forgotten by and invisible to her parents, who often quarrel or are busy with other things. To escape the boredom and loneliness, Eden has created a secret escape in the garden, where she lies on a blanket and eats cookies with her tin friend, Toy Robot.
One day something very peculiar happens. A butterfly passes by and spreads its magic over a pair of empty toilet paper rolls by the trash can, next to Eden’s blanket. Eden uses the rolls to construct a spyglass and observes her surroundings through her new self-made gadget. At first, everything looks ordinary. But when her eyes wander across the tree tops, she quickly realizes there’s something special with the spyglass. Who are those quirky birds sitting there – having coffee? And what adorable earthworms dancing synchronized dance in the compost! What captures Eden the most, however, is what she sees through the spyglass when it’s aimed towards her parents in the family’s living room sofa…
CAST & CREW
Idea, scriptwriter & director: Malin Erixon
Producer: Malin Erixon / Ganzanderes Animation
Co-producers: Sveriges Television & Film Stockholm
Animation, design & illustration: Malin Erixon
Sound design & sound mix: Gabrielle Wikhede / Ljudbang
Editing: Malin Erixon
Editing advisor: Johan Ribe
Music & performance: Christofer Ahde / violin: David Odlöw
Dramaturgical & artistic advisor: Johan Ribe
Grading: Nils Fridén
Storyboard: Giuseppe Cristiano & Malin Erixon
Character design advisors: Hedvig Erixon & Edith Erixon
Thank you: Gullvi Erixon & Lars Erixon
♥ ♥ ♥ For Hedvig & Edith ♥ ♥ ♥
PRODUCTION INFO
Original title: Kikaren
Technique: Computer 2D
Duration: 9:27 min
Target group: children and adults
Color/B:W: Color
Dialogue: None
Formats: DCP & various digital files
Distribution: Folkets Bio
FINANCIAL SUPPORT BY:
The Swedish Film Institute / film commissioner Andreas Fock
Sveriges Television / Helena Ingelsten
Konstnärsnämnden / The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Film Stockholm / Ivana Lalovic
Illustratörcentrum
STATUS
• VOD premiere: Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022 on Draken Film.
• Cinema premiere: Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022, at Biograf Zita in Stockholm as well as at several other places across Sweden, through Folkets Bio.
• International premiere: June, 2022 at Palm Springs International ShortFest
• TV premiere: Saturday, April 16, 2022, at 7:15 P.M. on SVT 1 and SVT Play.
• Festival premiere: Jan 29, 2022 at
Göteborg Film Festival
• Trailer, EPK, etc – finished
• Finished film: Sept, 2021
• Grading / mastering – finished
• Sound design – finished
• Editing – finished
• Music – finished
• Animation – finished
• Financing – finished
• Background design – finished
• Animatic – finished
• Character design – finished
• Storyboard – finished
• Scetches – finished
• Script – finished