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Arachnophobia
A Film by Melita Sandrin, Slovenia, 2024
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Original Title
Arahnofobija
Country of Production
Slovenia
Year of Production
2024
Running Time
2’49’’
Language
No dialogue
Credits
Director, writer, editing, animation, set design : Melita Sandrin
Costume design: Vesna Sandrin
Sound recording: Melita Sandrin, Mateja Starič
Sound design: Boštjan Kačičnik
Music: Andrej Batič, Jamie Bathgate
Stratacut animator: Domen Sajovic
Compositing: Domen Sajovic
Colourgrade: Teo Rižnar
Production
Production Company or Producer
University of Nova Gorica School of Arts
Synopsys
A seemingly harmless prank turns into a delirious nightmare revolving around spiders.
Name
Melita Sandrin
Biography
Melita Sandrin (b. 2003) is a first-year master's student at the University of Nova Gorica at the School of Arts. Before UNG, she was learning about animation and film at the School of Animated Film in Čakovec. Currently, she is exploring different animation techniques and media of animation but found herself mostly enjoying analogue techniques such as stop-motion. She also like to dip her fingers in video film, photography, new media, and design.
Student @ University of Nova Gorica School of Arts
Director's notes
Meta and Damjan are sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee. Meta falls asleep on the table and Damjan start putting sugar to their coffee mugs and as he’s pouring sugar into Meta’s coffee, a small spider that was hiding in the sugar pile falls into the drink. Damjan decides to leave the spider in her drink as a prank. Meta wakes up and takes a sip of coffee. Meta spits out the coffee and begins to scream and panic uncontrollably after noticing the spider. Her overreaction is shown through morphing, psychedelic visuals, illogical movements, and actions. After some time, she returns to reality, back in the kitchen. They make peace and continue their morning coffee until a butterfly lands on Damjan’s mug. Damjan gets very scared and starts screaming.
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