Frogtown
Innovative Cinema Short, AT 2024, Farbe, 54 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2024
Director, Script, Editor: Gerhard Treml
Cast: Edith Schwarzl, Franz Lorenz
Camera: Andrew Hoffmann, Klaus Fleischhacker
Additional Credits: Filmentwicklung: Gerhard Treml, Leo Calice; Voice Actors: Bernard White, Jacky Katzmann, Sabina Zuniga Varela
Dioramas; Animation / Postproduktion: Gerhard Treml
Producers: Gerhard Treml
Production: O.N.L.S.D.
Six tableaux show a satellite perspective of sections of Frogtown, a Los Angeles neighborhood. On the ground, miniaturized figures walk through the image, telling of the community, the place’s gentrification, and old traumas. An animated film that’s like an expandable puzzle.