Carl Roosens

*Pygmalion* is a film about movement: the movement of bodies and souls, that of an animated marionette and its creator, and that of animated film and dance. A stop-motion animator, who looks like a rough-hewn log, sculpts, crafts and dresses a photorealistic puppet, then directs it in front of his camera.

He is a magician. She is a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. Their challenge is to keep their heads, here up above it all, while everything is falling apart down below. But when reality calls – when fires need quenching and people need entertaining – how can they best make themselves useful in a world gone off the rails?