What is the film about?

What influenced it?

I’ve always preferred the black&white pictures. The animated feature Persepolis was in the cinemas when I was working on Orsolya, and I really liked how impressive and strong it was visually, so I must say I’m sure that was a big influence as well!

A little background information...

Orsolya was my graduation film at the MOME University. I was looking for a good story to make film about, and one of my teachers suggested me to write a few and then we can pick one of them. At that time I had a heavy period of my life, so many times I used to see the world “upside down”. I just wrote the story accidentally, but then I started to thinking about how that unusual perspective could work visually in a film. I really liked the playful opportunities of that. By the way, as a person and as an animator, I really like to observe the people’s body and the way how they move. I think you can tell a lot through body language alone, you can describe a person just with their movements and how they react on certain situations with their body.

How was the film made?

I had a small team: Two hand-drawn animators, and one 2D animator for effects and the cars, and a bunch of in-betweeners. Oh yes, this film was made with pencil on paper – pretty old school now!