Veronika Orlovska Through Film
TOTAL ECLIPSE
Total Eclipse is a surreal retelling of the relationship between the Sun and the Moon. After their marriage, tensions rise when the Sun wants to conceive a child but the Moon does not yet feel ready. She turmoils in her solitude leaving room for her to find peace in the ocean instead.
Shot on Kodak 16mm Color Negative Film {50D & 500T}
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This short serves as a proof of concept and a prequel to a feature film I am writing.
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VIOLET
Just woke up.
Seeing Red, seeing Blue.
Playing War in the alley,
Enjoying the view.
Going home for the night now,
Are you coming too?
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Violet is a poetic short film written and directed by Eric Ducos. It plays with visual storytelling through unconventional editing as well as the merging of digital video and stop motion animation. ​
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VISUALLY VERONIKA
Visually Veronika is an animated work I made in early 2022 inspired by Frank Mouris's Frank Film. I was immediately entranced when I first saw this piece in an exhibition at ICP. The overwhelming cacophony of overlapping audios and rapidly moving images culminated into something mesmerizing. With each viewing, I focused on a different aspect of the piece and carefully studied it in order to later create my own version. Through this work, I focused on replicating elements of Frank Mouris's animation. Still foregrounds and rapidly moving backgrounds, clusters of objects filling the screen, and overlapping narration that carefully paralleled the displayed imaging. Although my first attempt at this type of animation, I believe this work communicates not only my story as an individual, but also what I am trying to achieve as an artist.
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LUFT
"Luft - a safe square to which a piece, especially a king, can move to if it is threatened"
Luft is a short film that explores narrative storytelling in the absence of dialogue and diegetic sound. It was shot digitally and on VHS.
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MY ROSEMARY
Recipient of 'Best Screenwriting' and 'Audience Favorite Vote' at the fellows collective's 2023 48-hr film jam. "My Rosemary" chronicles a young woman's growing pains as she contemplates her new home and the women who came before her.
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A BIRD TO BURY
"In my next life, I'd like to be a bird,
if requests are allowed"
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A Varda-inspired video portrait on birds in New York City.
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FAIRY OF THE NIGHT
Fairy of the Night is a proof of concept stop motion animated short for a film about the fairy of the night. She bestows dreams onto children and brushes her midnight blue hair which cloaks the sky.
The story is one my grandma used to tell me as a child when putting me to sleep.
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