The Depository

A writer is musing blankly over his notebook, and as he falls asleep his imagination projects a disturbing world of imprisoned flying ‘spirits’ with book leaf wings, one of whom flies to rescue his fellow creatures from the depository of a sinister collector-cum-curator, where they are being held like specimens in glass cabinets. Captured himself, the doppelganger is then freed from his prison of the mind by a beautiful woman spirit, to fly back into the wakening consciousness of the artist himself.

Based on Andrzej Klimowski’s book, The Depository conjures up a dream narrative which is as gripping as any thriller, a black movie without dialogue.

What People are Saying…

“Makes striking use of sombre monochrome.” Donald Clarke The Irish Times

Stills

Awards

  • 2004 Special Distinction, China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival
  • 2004 Nomination, Digital Media Award, Digital Storytelling
  • 2003 Nomination, Irish Film and Television Awards, Best 2D Animation
  • 2003 2nd Prize, Galway Film Fleadh, Best Animation (Kodak Academy Awards Run recipient)
  • 2002 Frameworks Award

Festival Showings

  1. World Premiere: Galway Film Fleadh, Galway, Ireland July 2003 ( Award Winner! Second Prize, Best Animation)
  2. U.S. premiere: Official Selection, New York Film Fleadh, September 2003
  3. D.E.A.F. Dublin, September 2003
  4. Samhlaiocht, Kerry Arts Festival, October 2003
  5. Cork International Film Festival, Cork, October 2003
  6. U.K. premiere BAF! Bradford November 2003
  7. Exhibit 5, Digital Hub, Dublin, March 2004
  8. Bimini, Latvia, March 2004
  9. Comica, London, June 2004
  10. Talk Digital, Dublin, June 2004
  11. Animamundi, Rio de Janeiro July 2004
  12. Animamundi, Sao Paolo July 2004
  13. Wideshut, London, July 2004
  14. Odense, Denmark, August 2004
  15. Sao Paolo IFF, Brazil, September 2004
  16. 5th Brisbane International Film Festival, October 2004
  17. China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival. Winner !: Special Distinction Award. October 2004.
  18. Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, November 2004
  19. Seagate Foyle Film Festival, Derry, November 2004
  20. Regensburger Kurtzfilmwoche, Germany, November 2004
  21. Tirana IFF, Albania, December 2004
  22. Ale Kino! Poznan, Poland March 2005
  23. Cinema Jove, Valencia June 2005
  24. Feile Beochan, Kilkenny, Ireland September 2005
  25. Krok, Ukraine September 2005
  26. Offside II, Hugh Lane Gallery September 2005
  27. Glitch VI, Montreal, Canada. October 2005
  28. Darklight, Letterkenny, November 2005
  29. Anifest, Budapest, Hungary December 2005
  30. Irish Animation Retrospective, Animex International Animation Festival, University of Teeside, February 2006
  31. Anifest, Trebon, Hungary, May 2006
  32. Reanimacja, Lodz, Poland, April 2008
  33. Animadrid, Madrid, September 2010
  34. Filmoteca de Zaragoza Screening , October 2010

More Information

For further information on The Depository please contact Andrew Kavanagh: andrew@kavaleer.com | +353 1 488 58 73