The Cleaner (CH 2006) von Dustin Rees

35mm, 2.44 min, colour, no dialogue, 2D animation, Switzerland, July 2006
Director, Script, Animation: Dustin Rees
Production: HGK Lucerne, Gerd Gockell
Edit, Camera: Dustin Rees
Sound: Dustin Rees, Wolf Ingo Roemer
Website Dustin Rees: www.createdindust.ch

Synopsis:

The cleaner goes through his life removing and disposing things around us. In the background of his daily duties a couple come together and grows apart, hidden and revealed by the actions of the cleaner.

Prizes:

- Best Student Animation: ANIM’EST, Bukarest 2007

Shown at:

2006

- DOK Leipzig Germany
- Regensburger Kurzfilm Woche
- Braunschweig International Film Festival Germany
- Rio de Janeiro ISFF Brazil

2007

- Solothurner Filmtage Switerland
- Future Film Festival Bologna
- Animex Festival Middlesbrough GB
- Kontrast Bayreuther Filmfest
- Anima Basauri
- Stuttgart animation festival
- Cortoons Rome Italy
- Annecy France
- KAFI USA
- Lenola Film Festival Italy
- Festival der Nationen Ebensee Austria
- Tiscali Short Film Awards Italy
- Anima Mundi Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Alpinale Bludenz Austria
- Platform int. animation film fest Oregon
- Edinburgh int. film festival GB
- Open Eyes Festival Marburg Germany
- Fresh Film Fest Karlovy
- Fantoche animation festival Baden
- Bunter Hund Munich Germany
- Encounters Short Film Festival Bristol, GB

- ANIMEST Romania
- Chilrden’s Film Festival, India
- Int. Animation & Digital Arts Festival China (CICDAF)
- MUMIA Brazil
- Milano Film Festival Italy
- FilmON Lucerne Switzerland
- Wiesbaden Animation im Schloss Germany
- Balkanima Novi Beograd
- box[ur]shorts
- Tindirindis Lithuania
- Cortopotere Bergamo Italy
- FIAE Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- SHORTs moviefest, St. Petersberg, Moscow, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Samara
- Akbank Short Film Festival, Turkey
- Euroshorts Warsaw, Poland
- I Castelli Animati, Rome
- Anilogue int. ani. Festival, Budapest
- Animateka, Ljubijana, Slovenia

2008

- Animated Exeter, UK