Bastiaan Schravendeel

When 19-year old Esra misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone, a vintage Rubik's Cube challenges her attention.

A young boy moves to a new neighborhood and falls in love, for the first time, with the much older girl next door.

Open Surgery is a short animation film about an open heart surgery where death comes to play his part. The animation was made as the second year student film (2008) of my study, 3D computer animation and visual effects, at Utrecht School of the Arts.

Kyra (9) and her sisters Margot (12) and Janna (5) return to their grandma’s farm for the summer. Kyra looks forward to spending lots of time with her older sister Margot, catching frogs and playing silly games in the mysterious woods, like they always do. But this year turns out to be different. Margot starts distancing herself from her younger sisters, and Kyra soon discovers why: mythical creatures of the mist, called ‘White Wenches’, are luring Margot into the woods to transform her into one of them; a young woman.