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Solar Walk
Réka Bucsi
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*Solar Walk* shows the journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space. Any meaning of action is only existent from the perspective of the individual, but never mandatory when looking at it from the perspective of a solar system. It’s about the melancholy of accepting chaos as beautiful and cosmic. Passion for creation is projected through the unique and playful texture of the animation craft itself.
That balance between familiar and unknown is always one of my main focuses when I'm starting a movie. The alien part is also something I like to keep alien, and don't discover entirely. I prefer not to know my characters very intimately. The original version of *Solar Walk* is a 47 minute long piece for a live performance, with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra. It’s a sort of modern *Fantasia*, where the film is linked to the music. The short film is the spine of the long version, it’s the core of the story. The film builds up from classic 2D cell animation, mixed with some 3D CGI. The focus relies on discovering what we could potentially take away from traveling through space or understanding something like infinity. I wanted to focus on kindness as the main characteristic for the creatures.
Links: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/solarwalk
That balance between familiar and unknown is always one of my main focuses when I'm starting a movie. The alien part is also something I like to keep alien, and don't discover entirely. I prefer not to know my characters very intimately. The original version of *Solar Walk* is a 47 minute long piece for a live performance, with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra. It’s a sort of modern *Fantasia*, where the film is linked to the music. The short film is the spine of the long version, it’s the core of the story. The film builds up from classic 2D cell animation, mixed with some 3D CGI. The focus relies on discovering what we could potentially take away from traveling through space or understanding something like infinity. I wanted to focus on kindness as the main characteristic for the creatures.
Links: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/solarwalk
Director: Réka Bucsi
Storyboard: Réka Bucsi
Layout: Jason Reicher, Réka Bucsi
Background artist: Réka Bucsi
Animation: Nicole Stafford, Jason Reicher, Cyrille Chauvin, Pernille Kjaer
Generalist: Lars Hemmingsen
Compositing: Lars Hemmingsen, Asger Kjaerholm
Sound and mixing: Péter Benjámin Lukács
Music: Mads Vadsholt
Production manager: Loréne Lescanne
Producer: Morten Thorning (The Animation Workshop/VIA University College), Claus Toksvig (Norlum)
Storyboard: Réka Bucsi
Layout: Jason Reicher, Réka Bucsi
Background artist: Réka Bucsi
Animation: Nicole Stafford, Jason Reicher, Cyrille Chauvin, Pernille Kjaer
Generalist: Lars Hemmingsen
Compositing: Lars Hemmingsen, Asger Kjaerholm
Sound and mixing: Péter Benjámin Lukács
Music: Mads Vadsholt
Production manager: Loréne Lescanne
Producer: Morten Thorning (The Animation Workshop/VIA University College), Claus Toksvig (Norlum)
Réka Bucsi (HU), born in 1988, is a Hungarian independent animation filmmaker. She received her BFA and MFA at the animation department of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. Her graduation film *Symphony no. 42*, got shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards. Her films have been screened at official shorts competitions such as Berlinale, SXSW, Sundance, Annecy, and have won over 50 international awards. 2013/2014 she attended Animation Sans Frontiéres (ASF), the European Animation Production Workshop. She was an artist in residence at the Open Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and at Q21 in Vienna. Her French co-produced short film *LOVE* was nominated for the European Film Awards 2017, and shortlisted for the César Award 2018. Réka is represented as a director by Passion Pictures.