Euganea Festival
by Yuval and Merav Nathan
Animation | Israele | 2014 | HD | 3 min.italian subtitles by EMM
Date saturday 5 july
Location Teatro Filodrammatici - ESTE (PD), via Calle della Musica, 13
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This music video for Efrat Ben Zur's song suggests a visual interpretation to Emily Dickenson's poem. the video sets in a fragile organic world in which flowers and creatures wobbling between life and death, between blooming and withering. The video was created using real plants over black velvet.
erav and Yuval Nathan is a pair of directors/creators, who specialize in animation. These two artists came from different fields of creation and together they created a unique style that combines photography, design, 3d animation and stop motion. In the past few years their work focuses more on stop motion, and in each work they try to push the boundaries of the medium. The Nathan's resume includes an Annie award for the best commercial (2009) ,a Grammy nomination for best music video, being chosen by Saatchi and Saatchi new directors showcase as well as many awards from festivals around the world, with their work having been covered in international magazines and blogs. Filmography: "Robin" - A Stop motion music video for Efrat Ben Zur. "Eretz Nehederet" (2013) - pixelation promo to the prime time show "Eretz Nehederet" "Leket Israel" - stop motion commercial "The Big Brother"- Promo - This promo Gained the highest rating ever in Israel for a launching of a show (45%) "Loose this Child" – a music video made all in stop motion for Eatliz band. Animpact Animation Festival (Korea) - Best of the best 2011 Golden Panda 2011 (China) - Best Overseas Promotional Animation ANIMA 2011(Argentina) - Best Animation Prize - Music video category - 2011 I’v Seen films (Italy) - Best Video clip -2011 Naoussa (Greece) - Honorable mention - 2011 Multivision (Russia) - The most sensitive animated film in street art style - 2011 Gross prize for Excellence in Animation (Israel) -2011 Animix- Asif (israel) - Best independent movie - 2011 SICAF (Korea) - Special Distinction in Commissioned Films Category - 2011 Anima Mundi (Brazil) - Best Protfolio - 2011 Euganea Film Festiva (Italy) - Best animation award - 2011 Animayo international animation festival (Spain) - Best music video Musiclip Music Video festival (Spain) - Best animated music video - 2010 - 2011 AniFest animation festival (Czech Republic) - Music video Special mention award - 2011 Cortoons animation festival (Rome) Best Film in "Videoclip" category - 2011 Video Festival Imperia (Italy) - Winner of Animation Section - 2011 Ipren Film Festival (Ukraine) - Winner in second prize - 2011 Corti da Sogni (Italy) - Winner of "Frequencies in short" category - 2011 Porto 7 International short film festival (Portugal) Best music video - 2011 FEST ANČA - Best music video - 2011 MIAF - Best of the next - 2011 "Spanish lottery" – seven commercials of 20 seconds each for the national Spanish lottery. The spot "Deportes" won the "Best Commercial" in the Annie Awards 2009. The spots were based on "Her Morning Elegance". It was produced by Acme Film works. "Comcast – Dream Big" – Three commercials for Comcast. The commercials were based on the concept of "Her Morning Elegance". It was produced by Acme Film works. "Ikea" – the drive - a stop motion commercial. agency - "Azimut" (2009) "Her Morning Elegance" - a music video for Oren Lavie (2008) It was chosen to the "Saatchi and Saatchi new directors showcase 2009" in Cannes. The film was nominated for the best Music video in the Grammy Awards 2009. ITFS (Stuttgart) - Best music video 2010 Until 2010 there are more then 15 million views on you tube. On the first two weeks there were 4 million viewers. "Dancing" - a music video for "The Walking Man" (Gilad Kahana) - winner of Asifa festival in Tel Aviv, music video category (2008) "Postcard" – a music video for Amit Erez "Attractive" music video for "Eatliz" band – 2006-07 - Winner of "Grand Video award – Ourstage 2009" - Best Israeli music video of the decade the Channel 24 (the music channel) - Winner of Asifa festival in Tel Aviv, music video category (2007) - Participated in Anima mundi festival – BRAZIL - short listed in ANImotion festival -ROMANIA "Momiji" – a music video for "baby" channel - 2007
