THE HUNGRY SISTERS

"The Hungry Sisters" is the last part of Michaela Mandels animated short film trilogy "The Filthy Grimm".  This compilation contains the screen adaptions of a very dark tales complex which was only published in the first edition of the Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales. They have been considered to cruel for the readership at that time. Then they vanished for a long time.

 

There once was a mother of two daughters who lived in such abject poverty and desperation that she said to her girls: “I will need to slaughter you or we will all starve otherwise.” The sisters replied: “Dear Mother, we will go to bed and sleep and not wake up again.” And they lay down and went to sleep a deep slumber. But the mother disappeared, never to be seen again.

 

Animation Short (2016) / AT 13.30 min / Director and Production: Michaela Mandel /Cast: Maresi Riegner, Mira Reisinger, Martha Jarolim

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Sinister sisters Slaughterhouse

Second part of the Brothers Grimm trilogy "The Filthy Grimm".

 

In a city named Franecker, there once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children watched. In the afternoon, when the children began playing, the sisters said to their brother: 'you be the little pig, and we'll be the butcher.' Then they took a shiny knife, as they had seen before, and a little bowl to catch the pig's blood so they could make sausages...

 

Animation Short (2009) / AT/SE 12:30 min / Director and Production: Michaela Mandel / Cast: Lisa Mandel, Jamie Fischer, Jakob Harfmann

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Die wunderliche Gasterei / The wonderly guesting manor

First part of the Brothers Grimm trilogy "The Filthy Grimm".

 

This animated film is based on a bloodthirsty fairy tale, which negotiates the invitation of a liver sausage in the home of the blood sausage home. The liver sausage firstly accepts happily, but when she enters the house, strange things happen...

 

Diesem Animationsfilm liegt ein im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes blutrünstiges grimmsches Hausmärchen zugrunde, das zu den unbekannteren der gesammelten Werke Jakob und Wilhelm Grimms zählt. Kaum mehr als eine Seite ist die Erzählung lang und verhandelt die Einladung einer Blutwurst zum Essen, die von der Leberwurst erst auch freudig angenommen wird. Doch als die Leberwurst das Haus der Blutwurst betritt, geschehen seltsame Dinge...

 

Animation Short (2007) / AT 4:00 min / Director and Production: Michaela Mandel / Cast: Kurt Palm, Wodo Gratt, Fritz Ostermayer

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Night. Inside.

This film is the result of an exploration of the theme ”The Monstrous and the Female – Gender Positions in the Genre of the Horror Film“. Based on the setting of a deconstruction of the uncanny, I experimented with fragmented characters located beyond the possibilities of a cultural coding, who thus refuse the stable perspective of categories.

Animation Short (2006) / NL 3:30 min / Director and Production: Michaela Mandel

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