The sixth edition of the Festival of Animation Berlin goes live on August 26th, 2022 with help from a parade of wonderfully off-kilter characters in this animated trailer directed by Raman Djafari.

Raman Djafari: “I developed the trailer based on the theme of this year’s FAB theme: Collective. We came up with using the concept of the exquisite corpse to represent a variety of characters that are ever-changing fluid beings who are able to transcend identity categories.

“In the end, they all come as a unity, which kind of mirrors the animation festival experience. The fans that come to the festival this year will find some pretty cool ways to interact with these characters and concepts, made possible by the wonderful design studio Keenly.

“I was lucky to work with two amazing artists to bring this trailer to life, the sound designer Max Gausepohl and the animator Jack Zhang. I’m so thankful for their amazing contributions. I hope this little trailer is able to show some aspects of the amazingly utopian potential of animation and its community.”

Since signing to the Blinkink roster in 2020, Djafari has created stand-out multi-media music videos for Elton John and Dua Lipa “Cold Heart” and Squid “Pamphlets”.
 

 
Client: Festival of Animation Berlin

Director: Raman Djafari
2D Animator: Raman Djafari, Jack Zhang
Cleanup/Coloring: Jack Zhang, Raman Djafari

Sound Design: Max Gausepohl