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    La isla de los muertos

    Vuk Jevremovic
    Germany | 2011 | 7’32‘‘

    A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man’s skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

    Original Title: Toteninsel
    Direction: Vuk Jevremovic
    Animation: Vuk Jevremovic
    Screenplay: Vuk Jevremovic
    Music: Xabier Erkizia
    Producer: Vuk Jevremovic

    Vuk Jevremovic

    Vuk Jevremovic was born 1959 in Frankfurt on Main (Germany), but he’s spent his childhood in ex Jugoslavia. He started exhibiting in 1986 and during the following years he was considered as a promising young artist in former Yugoslavia. His first animation was based on a cheetah in motion, The Wind Subsides. That first film was shown all over the world, and it won 2 Grand Prix and 17 Awards. The next film, inspired by a R.M.Rilke’s poem, Panther, was also successful. It won 15 international awards and came into final balloting for the Oscar award (1998) as best animation short. Since then, his life has been linked to animation and he has continued to create short films. He was a member of many Festival jurys, like in Madrid (Spain), Jena, Regensburg, Dresden (Germany), Zagreb(Croatia), Belgrade(Serbia), Krok (Russia and Ukraine), Talinn (Estonia), Liberec (Czech Republic), Skopje (North Macedonia), Ljubjana (Slovenia).