Is heaven blue? #2
2023
An animated experimental short documentary film.
Directed by Menno and
Paul de Nooijer
Stop-motion; 20 min
A co-production with Tri-Eye
A playful and painful farewell.
Uncertainty has crept in. What started out tough, ends in melancholy. Time leaves its mark on the faces and bodies of the father, mother and son. They started out as a creative artistic family, and now the young grows old, the healthy sick. This experimental animated film is a playful and painful farewell after fifty years of making art together.
The trio has worked together on different film productions. Visit their portfolio at denooijer.org
Festivals
2024
January 1 to 27, film installations arranged around IS HEAVEN BLUE? #2, Large or Maria Magdalena Church, Goes NL [about 1500 spectators]
January 19, Masterclass De Nooijer, Eye Film Museum [Eye Collection Centre], Amsterdam NL
January 21, Lecture animation film, Figurfestspillene, Tønsberg NO
March 26 to 31, IS HEAVEN BLUE? #2, selected for the International Competition of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Michigan USA
April 5 to 14, IS HEAVEN BLUE? #2, selected for the International Competition of the Kaboom Animation Festival, Utrecht-Amsterdam NL
April 7 to 9, IS HEAVEN BLUE? #2, selected for the Dutch Competition of the 16th edition of Go Short – International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen NL
May 25, Meet the Archive, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam NL
2023
March 7 to 17, [IS HEAVEN BLUE? 2022 version], Monstra Animation Festival, Lisbon PT
April 18 to 23, [IS HEAVEN BLUE? 2022 version], Filmfest Dresden DE
May 12 to14, DFF – Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt DE
June 5 to 10, Selected for the TIME FOR THE MASTERS program, World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest 2023 Zagreb HR
June 11 to 17, Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023 Annecy FR [awarded the OFF-LIMITS CRISTAL]
August 9 to 12.08.2023, Countryside Animafest Cyprus CY [awarded the GRAND PRIX NON-NARRATIVE]
September 5, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam NL
September 6 & September 12, selected for the International Competition 29th L’Etrange Festival Paris FR
September 16 & September 17, Film By The Sea 25th International Film Festival Vlissingen NL
September 27 to October 1, StopTrik International Film Festival Maribor SI
November 8 onwards, foto\film-installation MANURE PIT arranged around IS HEAVEN BLUE? #2, TROLLFILM AS Dovre NO
December 8 to December 10, StopTrik International Film Festival Łódź PL