International immersive Works Competition

The Hangman at Home

Swiss Premiere

Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot / Denmark, France, Canada / 2020 / 25 min / Animation, Drama
English, French

What does the executioner think about when he comes home in the evening? Echoing Carl Sandburg’s poem, Michelle and Uri Kranot take up this question to imagine five sketches, five outlooks on humanity. The astonishing result won the Award for Best VR Immersive Work at the last Venice Mostra.

Available in FR / EN

Inspired by Carl Sandburg’s famous poem The Hangman at Home (1922), this work addresses themes of participation and responsibility through five intertwined stories. Each story features intimate, confused, curious and fragile moments that speak to us all and confront us with the complex roles of observer, witness and accomplice – what happens to the awareness of ourselves and others when no one is watching?

Creation

Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot

Key collaborators

Morten Andersen (VR production manager), Milan Grajetzki (VR designer)

Animation

Juliette Viger, Philip Piaget

Sound

Pierre Yves Drapeau

Music

Uri Kranot

Production

Late love production (Lana Tankosa Nikolic)

Co-production

Floreal films (Katayoun Dibamehr), National film board of Canada (Marc Bertrand)

With

Anne Dorval, Michelle Kranot, Lana Nikolic

Supported by

DANISH FILM INSTITUTE, CNC Centre national du Cinéma et de l'image animée, West Danish film fund

Contact

TinDrum (Uri Kranot)

Michelle Kranot / Israel, 1977

Filmography

2018, Songbird

2017, Nothing Happens

Uri Kranot / Israel, 1975

Filmography

2018, Songbird

2017, Nothing Happens