Still lives

Still lives is Elli Vuorinen’s experimental stop motion animation.

Still Lives is an experimental stop motion animation starring traditional figurines from folk art from various times and places. Accompanied by a soundtrack of narrators facing the pressures of modern life, the characters explore the theme of busy stillness from different points of view in seven separate scenes.

Director Elli Vuorinen:

Today, people are constantly busy. At the same time, we have never been as still: sitting down while working, while travelling, even when exercising at the gym. This contrast is the basic concept of Still Lives. I wanted to create a film with characters that stay quite still even while being mentally tossed around by the modern world.