Award-winning Estonian Film ‘Sounds Good’ by Sander Joon Now Online
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The award-winning Estonian animated film Sounds Good by writer-director Sander Joon has previously travelled to over 40 festivals, amongst them Annecy, GLAS, Go Short, Animateka. Next to other awards, it received the best student film award at Fredrikstad, Stuttgart, Kaboom and Supertoon. The film is now going online to finally make the internet sound good.
Sounds Good (2018) is a semi-experimental short animation which is inspired by the world of sounds. In the centre of this visually minimalistic bizarre journey is the boom operator, who is running around with a sound recorder. Parallel to his attempts, we see contemporary art curators who are bored and confused about the film and the environment they’re in. They decide to take it into their own hands and do a performance. The mould and mushrooms in this film connect everything by being the main source for sound effects. They also glue together the absurd storylines and build the tension, which grows exponentially as the sound intensifies and the film progresses.
This film reflects my deep interest in the use of sound in films. The phase of adding sound to my previous films had been always a daunting task but with Sounds Good I dove into the sound design early in the process and discovered how much you can tell by adding sounds to a still image for example.
– Sander Joon
Prior to Sounds Good, director Sander Joon (b. 1990) has worked as a VJ, collaborated on an exquisite corpse Rick and Morty ad, and directed two short films: Velodrool (2015) and Moulinet (2017) which both have enjoyed festival success. Joon also collaborated on a stop-motion comedy Old Man Cartoon Movie (2019) which is one of the most successful animated features in Estonia. Currently, Joon is working on his first independent short animation Rehvivargad, which puts a surreal spin on the rally world. The development of Rehvivargad has been supported by the Estonian Film Institute.
Sounds Good was produced in Estonian Academy of Arts (supervised by Priit Pärn & Olga Pärn), during an artist residency in The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark and BOP Animation Studio in Tallinn.