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Running Lights

This is a story about the eternal miracle of life and death. The unfortunate death of a wild hare turns into a remarkable experience for children who find his body and bury it in a sand box. Now buried, the hare’s life fades away and dozens of magical creatures that lived inside him leave his body in search for a new home. The hare’s life ends by merging with nature, but is reborn in the plants and animals around it. This fairy-tale for children encourages us to think about what death is.

Information

Year
2017
Genre
Animation
Duration
11'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
No dialogues

Team

Director
Gediminas Šiaulys
Producer
Miglė Pelakauskė
Script
Gediminas Šiaulys, Andrius Kirvela
Editing
Gediminas Šiaulys
Sound designers
Fusedmarc and Eglė Sirvydytė, Jurga Šeduikytė, Mixtape Club
Music
Fusedmarc and Eglė Sirvydytė, Jurga Šeduikytė, Mixtape Club
Voice by
Jurga Šeduikytė, Ursula Šiaulytė, Adas Bareikis
Production company
PetPunk

Contacts

Miglė Pelakauskė
migle@petpunk.com

Director's biography

Gediminas Šiaulys

Ged Sia (Gediminas Šiaulys) is an animation director, visual artist and founder of a studio PetPunk. The artist’s primary areas of interest lie in animation, tactile crafts and various experiments within these fields. This leads to authentic work that is visually and aesthetically challenging, yet peculiarly subtle. His works gained recognition by world’s leading art & design magazines. In 2009 PetPunk won the “Young Guns” award by the Art Directors Club (New York) and Canadian Boards magazine included duo in top 6 of “New Wave of Designers”, while in 2010 UK’s leading design magazine Computer Arts featured PetPunk as “The New Wave of Animation”. In 2017 Ged Sia wrote and directed short film “Running Lights” which won him several international awards and was selected to over 120 film festivals around the world. Ged is a guest lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts, he speaks and sets workshops at various conferences.

Filmography

Giant / Milžinas (2007, short animation)
The Magnificent Town of Vilnius / Didingas miestas Vilnius (2008, short)
Woos (2008, trumpametražis animacinis)
Legends / Legendos (2009, short animation)
Concerned Kittens / Susirūpinę kačiukai (2012, animated mini-series)
Climate Change – Negotiations / Klimato kaita – Derybos (2012, short animation)
Running Lights / Kaukai (2017, short animation)
Shine / Šviesa (2018, short animation)