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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Fish for Life
Kerstin Blätterbinder,
Victoria Wolfersberger,
Lukas Mathä,
Lisa Gierlinger
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The animated short "Fish for Life" is based on the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. It’s about a common situation taken from life: people reach a point where they can not go any further. They are digging themselves into an incredibly heavy burden position just to reach an impossible goal. The initial stubbornness becomes obsessive and pushes people to their limits. "Fish for Life" picks up on this problem, which is anchored in society.
Synopsis
"Fish for Life" tells the story about Manolin, an outdated fisherman who lives in Norway. He has not caught anything in weeks. Manolin lives for his work. Unfortunately, he can no longer keep up with the new technology and also rejects it strictly.
Then one day he has reached the point, where he leaves the safe harbour and set out to the open sea. He desperately wants to get his big catch. Far away from home – in unknown waters – the first fish finally bites. Surprisingly the creature is so strong that it is able to move the old fisherman’s boat. Manolin gets into a terrible storm. But the fisherman forgets everything around him.
The fight for the fish becomes a fight for survival in the end.
Synopsis
"Fish for Life" tells the story about Manolin, an outdated fisherman who lives in Norway. He has not caught anything in weeks. Manolin lives for his work. Unfortunately, he can no longer keep up with the new technology and also rejects it strictly.
Then one day he has reached the point, where he leaves the safe harbour and set out to the open sea. He desperately wants to get his big catch. Far away from home – in unknown waters – the first fish finally bites. Surprisingly the creature is so strong that it is able to move the old fisherman’s boat. Manolin gets into a terrible storm. But the fisherman forgets everything around him.
The fight for the fish becomes a fight for survival in the end.