Susanne Weissenböck (AT)
u19 winner: Honorary Mention
The stop-motion film Good night, Mary is the account of a nightmare. Parts of the film were made with cut-out paper figures, others were done with chalk on chalkboard coating.
The protagonist is a girl who passes through the world, the Moon her constant companion. Suddenly, she is being pursued by a monster, but the protagonist can escape, whereupon the monster plunges into a chasm. At first, it seems to have been vanquished, but then there emerges a watery fluid that turns out to be the monster morphed into another form. Frustrated that the protagonist has escaped its clutches, the monster steals her companion, the Moon, and along with it, all of its light. In this total darkness, the girl—overcoming her fear—begins to glow. She bravely leaps into the chasm, defeats the monster and rescues the Moon in the process. The two then continue on their way together.
During secondary school, Susanne Weissenböck realised that she did not want to be creative only in her spare time but she eventually wanted to make this her occupation. This led her to transfer to Linz’s Secondary School for Artistic Design.
credits: Susanne Weissenböck (AT)
