Vessela Dantcheva
Directing
Known For
Visual patterns are tied up in hierarchical behaviour that restrains the full potential and mobility of each individual element until the matrix collapses.
Hierarchy Glitch

The Happiness Machine is a cinematic performance comprised of animated films, musical compositions and testimonials. Ten women filmmakers, ten women composers and ten musicians present Christian Felber's Common Good Economy for discussion.
Happiness Machine

A visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman, dictated by the mind of Kurt Schwitters.
Anna Blume

Once upon a time there was a country… People lost it out of stupidity and greed and continued to live in the shadows of a once happy world. Now they are building a new society, but it seems history is repeating itself… Travelling Country is an animated fantasy fairy-tale about the quest for identity and freedom.
Travelling Country

A film project throwing a bridge between poetry and animation. It visually interprets 6 original contemporary Bulgarian poems, each told in a different manner. Animation has no limits and very much like poetry renders visual symbols and metaphors powerful. Stories of doomed paper boats, intimate links to film genres, petty morning crimes, ice-cream hopes, urban moods, and industrial revelations are interwoven in this visual poetry experience.
Mark and Verse
British Council's public campaign, consisting of 5 TV clips with brief and vivid messages on inclusion issues related to race, physical disability, sexual orientation, social and economic diversity. Used by the Council in over 20 countries. Screened at numerous festivals, including Annecy, HAFF, Anifest, SICAF, ANIMA MUNDI.
Media & Diversity
Murder in the second degree does not relieve guilt... Based on the work of Georgy Gospodinov.