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NIGGUN

2017 // Drama, Short Film, Traditional 2D

12:30
mins

Dir: Yonatan Salmon


What is the film about?

After a long journey through the stars a space archaeologist and an outcast rabbi are about to find the lost and mythical Earth… or at least what’s left of it.

What influenced it?

Blade runner, My own personal Moose by Leonid Shmel’kov, Old fangs by Cartoon Saloon and Black dog by Alisson DeVere

A little background information...

We, Alon and Yoni, the creators of this film, comes from different religious and cultural background – but we are both on a quest between spirit and matter, searching for an Alchemical point, in the hope of maybe never finding it. Our paths meeting of this quest does not only represent the voyage of our heroes, the spacious Rabbi and the space adventurer, but also helps in the search of a living breathing spirituality in a world where God no longer talks to men, but whoever listens may find him in unexpected places.

Niggun showed on Cardiff festival last year where we’ve met after a long time of following Skwigly.

How was the film made?

It is an indie film and it is not easy making such film without having a co production. We were partly sponsored by the Israeli Lottery organization that supports artists and we have worked with talented people that each of them was responsible for an aspect of the film: Yoni and Alon on story and development, Yoni directed the film and mainly one artist for animation and one for art with assistants of course. After years of occasional development it took us a year for the main production and it had a satisfying festival tour even though it is quite an irregular film.

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