short film

Lost Cargo



An animation film by
Pieter Engels and Efim Perlis




On his long journey, intergalactic space trucker Eugene occupies himself with mail-ordering various useless gadgets to support his lazy lifestyle. When his merchandise is attacked by a nasty disease, his little robot Han-D can no longer handle the workload. The new high-tech robot saves the merchandise at first, but when it starts taking its job too seriously, Eugene's laziness and belief in technology turn against him.

Lost Cargo, a digital shot stop-motion film, is the debut film of Belgian directors Pieter Engels and Efim Perlis.

This Dutch - Belgian co-production between il Luster Productions and S.O.I.L sets the standard for digitallly shot stop-motion films. Together with Dutch based animation studio PEDRI Animation they produced not only a funny short film, but also a technically superb piece of art.

This film is coproduced in association with the RNTV, who also distributes the film

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awardAnima Festival Brussels 2006 - CANVAS award


Credits

Title:Lost Cargo
Running time:
15 min.
Release date:
march 2006

Written and directed by:
Pieter Engels, Efim Perlis
Animators:
Efim Perlis, Steven De Beul, Pieter Engels
Design:
Pieter Engels
Studio:
Pedri animation
Technical supervisors
Peter Mansfelt, Paul Mathot
Post production & special effects
Pieter van Houte
Photography
Tobias Reymond, Pieter Engels
sound design
Senjan Jansen, Senstudio foley artist
Olivier Thys, Dame Blanche
foley sound engineer
Mathieu Cox
sound effects editor
Giorgo De Groof
Producers:
Arnoud Rijken & Michiel J. Snijders
Coproducer:
Geert van Goethem & Linda Sterckx for S.O.I.L.

Financial support:
Dutch Filmfund
The Flanders Filmfund
ThuisKopie Fonds
Radio Netherlands Television (RNTV)
VPRO television

Information / sales / productionhouse:
il Luster Productions
the Netherlands

© il Luster Productions