The Chimney Swift

Synopsis

19th century in Europe. A child climbs up a chimney while a bird sails down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back.

A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master's statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past.

DIRECTOR

Frédéric Schuld

Designer and art director for advertising agencies, before he studied direction and arts at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He founded the studio “Fabian&Fred” with Fabian Driehorst in 2011. Frédéric works with a strong focus on animated documentaries. In 2014 he received the Wim Wenders Foundation scholarship with Fabian Driehorst for the development of their first animated feature. Since then he was involved in a variety of experimental, documentary, commercial, 2D, 3D and mixed-media animation production.

INFORMATION

Director：Frédéric Schuld
2020 / Germany / 0:05:00