Goodbye To Mercury - a short music film

Goodbye To Mercury is a short film, that comes in disguise of a music video but captures the extraordinary story of me and my father in music, lyrics and animation.

Summary
In search of her father, a woman has multiple encounters with men with a moustache. They resemble an image her mother had clipped from a 1970s magazine, representing her absent father. Music, words, and animated stills based on the original clipping are woven into a poetic, estranging journey.

Goodbye To Mercury got officially selected for the international animation festival Anima in Brussels 2025 and Go Short festival Nijmegen and was also nominated for the Music Video Award!
Music Video Competition: 3 april 21:00 in Filmhuis LUX Nijmegen, zaal LUX 3 Tickets here

Short film for Sophie Calle - Musée d'Orsay, Paris

I made an audio-visual transcription of Sophie Calle's exhibition “Les Fantômes d'Orsay” for Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The expo is about the old, abandonded Hotel d'Orsay where Sophie spend months collecting and photographing it's remains in 1978. Creating the soundscape for this film I used, among others, the voices of my mother (French is her first language) and of our cat Vos. I made sound recordings in our old family chalet in Switzerland and in the remaining parts of the Hotel d'Orsay in Paris.

Below is a text I wrote at the request of Musée d'Orsay about my intentions and the creative process of making this film. The animation was made in collaboration with Zoltan Korai. (Watching the film is recommended with headphones :)

Here's an English subtitled version of the film:

Sexy Sadie - The Analogues

The Analogues will be showing the animations below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish. Script & images by Sonja van Hamel / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animation by Sverre Fredriksen

Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Analogues

The Analogues will be showing the animation below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish: Script & images by Sonja van Hamel / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animation by Zoltan Korai

Why Don't We Do It In The Road

The Analogues will be showing the animation below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish: Script by Sonja van Hamel / Images by Emanuel Wiemans / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animation by Zoltan Korai & Emanuel Wiemans

Blackbird

The Analogues will be showing the animations below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish: Script by Sonja van Hamel / Images by Emanuel Wiemans / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animation by Zoltan Korai & Emanuel Wiemans

Piggies

The Analogues will be showing the animations below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish: Script by Sonja van Hamel / Images by Emanuel Wiemans / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animated by Sverre Fredriksen & Emanuel Wiemans

Revolution 1

The Analogues will be showing the animations below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish: Script & images by Sonja van Hamel / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animation by Zoltan Korai

Savoy Truffle

The Analogues will be showing the animations below in their live show The White Album (originaly by The Beatles) at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam on November 2nd 2024.
Animation by BirdFish: Script & images by Sonja van Hamel / Art direction by Robert Muda / Animation by Zoltan Korai

Snapje? Planeten

Animation for children's TV show "Het Klokhuis" by me and Zoltan Korai

OCEAAN

Animation for children's TV show "Het Klokhuis" by me and Zoltan Korai. The stop-motion scenes were shot in a handmade "multiplane camera". Screenplay and cut out images by Sonja, animated by Zoltan Korai

The Robots - Music by Metropole Orkest Cellos (Kraftwerk)