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Toteninsel - La Isla de los Muertos
The Isle of the Dead

film type animated film Production Country Germany production year 2013 runtime 8'00 colour Color
screening format Beta SP

Inspired by original drawings by Franz Kafka, based on his short story “IN THE PENAL COLONY” and created as if envisioned by F. W. Murnau. The execution will be theoretically carried out by an ancient machine which engraves one sentence (the committed crime) on a mans skin. But the government has decided that this type of punishment is inhuman and should be immediately prohibited.

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Toteninsel - La Isla de los Muertos Toteninsel - La Isla de los Muertos
director Vuk Jevremovic Animation Vuk Jevremovic Editing Vuk Jevremovic DOP Vuk Jevremovic Production Vuk Jevremovic Script Vuk Jevremovic Original Score Xabi Erkizia Sound Design Xabi Erkizia
Festivals
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
FestCurtasBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada
ANIMA MUNDI, International Animation Festival of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece (Best Animated Film)
Production
  • Vuk Jevremovic
Distribution
  • Vuk Jevremovic
Sales
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Vuk Jevremovic

Vuk Jevremovic graduated in architecture from the Technical University of Belgrade, former Yugoslavia in 1984. In 2002 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master student of professor Joseph Kosuth. He is a visual artist and animated filmmaker.

Filmography
1997 Wind der stiller wird
1998 Panther
2000 Tagebuch
2004 Quercus
2006 Close Your Eyes and Do Not Breathe
2009 Geduld der Erinnerung
2013 Toteninsel - La Isla de los Muertos
2024 Moral Support

Portrait of Vuk Jevremovic