Anna Blume

Anna Blume

'Anna Blume' is a visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman. The story takes on surreal journey dictated by the mind of the poet. Lust and ingestion, disguised in love, drive the two characters to an end where love turns to be a very lonesome and strange place.The film is based on and inspired by the emblematic love poem from 1919 "An Anna Blume" by Kurt Schwitters.

Premiere at IFFR, 2010

'Anna Blume' International premiere was at International Film Festival Rotterdam, along side the film 'Pepperminta' by Pipilotti Rist.

‍“Absurdist animation in red, black and white, based on the poem An Anna Blume by the famous Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). A vivid, imaginative ode to love. 'Ich liebe Dir! Du, Deiner, Dich Dir, ich Dir, Du mir, ----- wir?' “

IFFR statement: “Vivid, imaginative ode to love. Absurdist animation, based on the poem An Anna Blume by the famous Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.”

Festivals & Awards

Afterwards the film screened at +100 International Animation and Film festivals and received the following awards:

Honorary Mention on Animation - Black & White Festival, Portugal, 2011

Honorary Mention - DOC Leipzig 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2010

DOC Leipzig Jury statement: “Using a unique personal style this film takes a man’s story and tells it from a woman’s perspective. Inventive and poetic, the film creates its own world and logic, without losing our connection to the real world and real people.”‍

Special Jury Award - ANIM’EST International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2010

ANIM'EST Jury statement: „Anna Blume is a film with a simple, yet powerful graphic style that takes us towards playfulness and imaginary using the absurdities of language, without minding sense and interpretation”.

Special Jury Award - RICA Wissembourg Animation Festival, France, 2010

Ritter Sport Prize - 5th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Germany, 2010

Best Bulgarian Animation - National Academy Film Awards, Bulgaria, 2010

Best Animation Direction Award - 17th Bulgarian Documentary and Animation Film Festival GOLDEN RYTHON, 2009

Critic’s Award - 17th Bulgarian Documentary and Animation Film Festival GOLDEN RYTHON, 2009

Best Animation Film up to 10min. - Golden Kuker Sofia International Animation Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2010

Credits

director: Vessela Dantcheva

art director: Ivan Bogdanov

screenplay: Vessela Dantcheva & Ebele Okoye

music composer: Petar Dundakov

original narration: Kurt Schwitters

sound designer: Emil Iliev

rough animation: Ebele Okoye

additional animation: Vessela Dantcheva, Ivan Bogdanov, Dmitry Yagodin, Rafail Nikolov

contour and colouring: Nataliya Atanasova, Dmitry Yagodin, Kremena Cholakova, Petya Zlateva, Albena Baeva, Iana Krachunova

edit, compositing: Ivan Bogdanov

layouts, storyboard: Vessela Dantcheva

produced by: FinFilm, Ebele Okoye

supported by: Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), National Film Center (Bulgaria)