Family Portrait

Artist Birgit Scholin realizes a surrealistic portrait of an extraordinary kind in her clay animation piece entitled Family Portrait. The family depicted acts in silence and without exhibiting the slightest semblance of connectedness – a pair of siblings bathe in a tub, children play alone, a mother knits, a father reads ¬– each seen in different corners of one single room. In addition, the richly detailed set made of plastic and fabric, as well as its nostalgic atmosphere of dreariness is reminiscent of scenery by Czech animation master Jan Švankmajer. The historical period in which the film takes place...