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    On Hold | In attesa

    Delia Hess
    Switzerland | 2023 | 7’13 v.o. sott. ITA | Italian Preview

    A young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline, and little things start to bring her to alienation. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the frustration of paralysing standstill, as if in cities we lived only waiting but we do not really know what for.

    Direction: Delia Hess
    Animation: Delia Hess, Aira Joana, Igor Kuzmic
    Screenplay: Delia Hess
    Editing: Thaïs Odermatt
    Compositing: Stefan Holaus
    Sound Design: Aline Schoch, Thomas Gassmann
    Sound Mixing: Aline Schoch, Thomas Gassmann
    Music: Luc Gut
    Voice: Elke Schützhold, Lena von Döhren
    Producer: Delia Hess, Anja Sidler
    Co-producer: Gabriela Bloch-Steinmann
    Production: Papierboot, SRT Schweizer Fernsehen

    Delia Hess

    Delia Hess studied animation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. Since her graduation in 2012 she has been working independently on her own short film projects as well as on commissioned films and illustrations. Among her works: the student films In the City (2011), Partition (2011) and Morning Train (2012), and the professional works Around the Stairway (2018), Circuit (2018) and Emmen by the Lake (2021). She lives and works in Lucerne.