on war
(2:40min, 2022)
experimental short film
Found Footage and Crass Animation Desk Techniques
Music: Fine Freiberg
Postproduction: Fine Freiberg
16mm scan: Francy Fabritz
Grading: Francy Fabritz
On War is an experimental meditation on post-war trauma, built from decaying 16mm found footage and Super 8 Material in a postwar landscape in Georgia in 2015—centered around haunting images of a man pedaling on an indoor bike, trapped in a motion that leads nowhere. The footage is fragmented while raw animations etched directly onto the film surface claw through the frames like buried memories. War isn’t shown—it echoes through visual dissonance, ruptured sound, and obsessive gesture. The man cycles as if escaping a memory that clings to him, pedaling through layers of trauma, archival debris, and scrawled war iconography. A crass animation desk becomes the battlefield—each frame scratched, burned, or overdrawn, revealing a psyche in collapse. The sound design tries to hold everything together. On War visualizes trauma not as history, but as an unending present—an internal conflict playing on an endless loop.
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