Intimate Animation: Réka Bucsi (“Love”)
UPDATE: Réka Bucsi’s Love is now available to watch online in full (see below)
Our new podcast series Intimate Animation – where we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animations (old and new) that deal with themes of love, relationships and sexuality – continues with episode 5.
In this episode we meet Réka Bucsi, who has followed up her tremendous MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest) student short Symphony No. 42 with the multi-award-winning Love. Produced in association with Passion Paris, Boddah and The Animation Workshop, the film premiered at the 66th Berlinale Shorts Competition to immediate acclaim, going on to screen at other prominent festivals including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, AFI Fest, Go Short, Melbourne International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Manchester Animation Festival passholders will also be able to see the film as part of our Skwigly Screening (alongside Lori Malépart-Traversy’s Le Clitoris, featured in episode 4) later this month. More recently the film earned a European Film Award nomination at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival as well as being shortlisted for the Cartoon d’Or when it won Best European Short at 3D Wire.
Also discussed in this episode are the broader themes of ‘love’ – beyond romantic and sexual relationships – that animation has effectively tackled, from family fare such as The Nightmare Before Christmas to more challenging work as Ma Vie de Courgette and Mary and Max.
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To hear more about Love from a production standpoint you can also listen back to our recent chat with producer Gábor Osváth at this year’s Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival:
Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley
Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell
Music by Ben Mitchell