Friday, February 20, 2009

Khoda by Reza Dolatabadi



What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which was seen as a ‘mission impossible’ by many people but eventually proved possible!

Director and art director: Reza Dolatabadi
Written by Reza Dolatabadi & Mark Szalos Farkas
Animation by Adam Thomson
Music by Hamed Mafakheri

Winner of the Best Animation Canary Wharf Film Festival (London) Aug, 2008

Winner of the Best Student Animation Flip Festival (Birmingham) 2008

Winner of the Best Student Animation, Royal Television Society Award, Scotland (rts) 2009

3 comments:

The Pansy Bastard™ said...

Brilliant! Amazing! Fantastic!

I am artistically and creatively challeneged, so how anyone could think of this, and then actually DO it - 6,000 - six thousand - paitings, just awes me.

yiristos said...

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks so much for posting this.

Cliff said...

Really great indeed!